Program

We are currently preparing the conference program to encourage artistic, technical, and scholarly exchange within the international Csound community. The conference will include keynote talks, paper presentations, artistic works, concerts, workshops, and discussions, creating opportunities for dialogue across disciplines and practices. Further details will be announced in due course.

Keynote Speakers

Alessandro Petrolati

Graduated in Piano and Electronic Music from the Conservatory of Pesaro (studying with Valentini and Giordani), he also attended the Opera program at the Pescara Music Academy.

He has performed in electronic and contemporary music contexts, including the State Auditorium in Rome, the Royal Palace of Milan, the Pesaro Film Festival, 91Mq in Berlin, Piazza del Popolo in Rome (with Ennio Morricone and astronaut Roberto Vittori), the Genoa Science Festival, ICSC in Saint Petersburg, Sguardi Sonori, and the Macerata Opera Festival.

His composition “Turnaround” received an honorable mention at the Luigi Russolo International Competition. He has taught for several years at the University of Macerata, the Academy of Fine Arts in Urbino, and at the Conservatories of Pesaro (Rossini), Udine (Tomadini), and Cesena (Maderna-Lettimi).

In 2012, he founded the software company apeSoft, developing music applications for Apple devices that are distributed internationally and used by hundreds of thousands of users. Since 2019, he has been involved in the assisted orchestration project Orchidea, coordinated by Carmine Emanuele Cella and supported by IRCAM (Paris), HEM (Geneva), and CNMAT at the University of California, Berkeley. As part of this project, he published an article in the Computer Music Journal (MIT Press).

He works as a software/firmware designer and programmer for Studiologic, a leading company in electronic musical instruments, and also provides technical consultancy for the prestigious piano manufacturer Schulze Pollmann.

In recent years, he has been active as a solo pianist and in chamber ensembles throughout Italy.

Micah Frank

Micah Frank is an electronic artist, composer, and instrument maker working across sound sculpture, live performance, and music technology. Drawing on algorithmic and generative methods, his pieces emerge from field recordings, bespoke software, and real-time synthesis. He has performed internationally for over two decades.

Since founding Puremagnetik in 2006, Frank has directed the Brooklyn-based label’s development of experimental musical instruments, hardware devices, and sound design platforms, many built around the Csound audio programming language.

His collaborative work includes the ensemble LARUM, which explores contemporary reinterpretations of classical material through live performance, as well as VONDISY, a project with Kodomo inspired by 1980s cinema soundtracks and early industrial music aesthetics.

Frank studied jazz performance at Mannes School of Music and The New School. Early work in sound design led to freelance collaborations with Ableton and Native Instruments, before he went on to lead sound content development at Ableton’s Berlin office from 2013 to 2015.