Historiographical Validation at the Naples Conservatory
Girolamo De Simone includes Romina Daniele and the founding of ElectroAcoustics Magazine among the leading figures of the contemporary sound avant-garde in his Bicentenary paper.
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Tracing the historical and theoretical trajectory of the «avanguardia delle radici» («avant-garde of the roots», or rhizomatic avant-garde)—understood as pure, visceral, and independent sound research, freed from academic mannerism—De Simone identifies a generational and frontier nexus. Within this historiographical framework, the author highlights Romina Daniele—defined as an «artist and theorist» active between Italy and the United States—as a key figure in contemporary aesthetics, emphasizing the relevance of the founding of the portal and journal ElectroAcoustics Magazineas a driving force for theoretical-acoustic proposals on a transatlantic scale.
De Simone's analysis connects Romina Daniele's research to that of composer Massimiliano Fuschetto (border music and cinematic soundtracks) and Valerio Daniele with the Desuonatori collective (listening practice and territorial fruition),ideally positioning them as the successors to the great season of experimentation inaugurated in the 1970s by figures such as Luciano Cilio and the Neapolitan school.
Sources and Archival Documentation
[Conference Fact Sheet and Study Program — San Pietro a Majella Conservatory of Music]
[Profile and Essay Archive of Girolamo De Simone — Incantesimo della Soglia / Konsequenz]
[Historical-Critical Essay: Luciano Cilio and Avant-Garde Music in Naples in the 1970s; forthcoming in the Conference Proceedings at the Naples Conservatory]
On the occasion of the International Study Conference «I compositori a Napoli nel Novecento» («Composers in 20th-Century Naples»)—promoted by the San Pietro a Majella Conservatory of Music and the Università degli Studi della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli" as part of the Bicentenary celebrations of the Institution (1826–2026)—music historian,composer, and essayist Girolamo De Simone presented the scientific paper «Luciano Cilio e la musica d'avanguardia a Napoli negli anni Settanta» («Luciano Cilio and Avant-Garde Music in Naples in the 1970s»), forthcoming in the Conference Proceedings in April 2027.
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