Works

Roberto Doati studied electronic and computer music with Albert Mayr, Pietro Grossi and Alvise Vidolin. In 1979 he graduated from the Conservatory "Benedetto Marcello" in Venezia. From then on he has been working as a composer and researcher in the field of musical perception at the Centro di Sonologia Computazionale, University of Padova where he has held many summer workshops. From 1983 to 1993 he was a staff member of L.I.M.B. (Laboratorio permanente per l'Informatica Musicale della Biennale di Venezia), editing its publications and involved in the realization of several projects, notably the exhibition "Nuova Atlantide. Il continente della musica elettronica" with Alvise Vidolin. He teached Musical Informatics at the School of Musicology and Pedagogy of Macerata University in Fermo between 1988 and 1993. In November 1996 he has been Visiting Composer at the Bretton Hall College for the Musica Duemila – Special Project of Italian Government and from 1996 to 1998 at the "Jornadas de Musica Electroacustica" on behalf of the Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Cordoba and Buenos Aires. Currently he is Professor of Computer Music and responsible for the School of Music and New Technologies at the Conservatory "Niccolò Paganini" in Genova.

Since its foundation to 2000 he has been member of the GATM, Analysis and Musical Theory Group scientific committee. Analysis of historical pieces as well of his own compositions have been published on Perspectives of New Music, Sonus, Quaderni di M/R journals and in books by Laterza, ERI-La Biennale di Venezia.
Always attentive to the relationship between instrumental and the creation of new electronic languages, he has recently concentrated his attention to interactive technologies that allow the performer gestures to control electronics.
His compositions won him international acknowledgements, starting with the selection at the Opera Prima (Teatro La Fenice, Venezia 1981) for Gioco di velocità, synthetic sounds, recorded on Edipan LP. In 1992 writes Donna che si copre le orecchie per proteggersi dal rumore del tuono, a work for flute and synthetic sounds commissioned by Spaziomusica and recorded by Roberto Fabbriciani on Edipan CD, for which he receives an honourable mention at the Ars Electronica Prix, Linz. On the occasion of the XLVI International Festival of Contemporary Music (1995) La Biennale di Venezia commissions him a work for voice and electronics L'olio con cui si condiscono le parole, performed by Marianne Pousseur. In 1997 he is invited by the Centre de Recherches et de Formation Musicales de Wallonie in Liège to compose the Felix Regula series (I-V) for violin/viola, flutes, clarinets, 8 track tape and live electronics, performed at the Festival Ars Musica in Bruxelles (version IV is on Cybele DEGEM cd7). During a residence at the Fondazione Bogliasco in 1999 he writes bastone armonico a work for violin, rainsticks and interactive system, performed by Marco Rogliano and Alvise Vidolin at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genova. In 2001 he is fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation in Bellagio to write L'apparizione di tre rughe for guitars, electronics and EyesWeb - audiovisual interactive system - recorded by Elena Casoli for Stradivarius Records. In 2002 Teatro La Fenice in Venezia put on "Per voce preparata", a stage play with works for a female voice (Anna Clementi), video and electronics with his Allegoria dell'opinione verbale for an actress (Francesca Faiella), electronics and EyesWeb based on Gianni Revello texts. In 2005 he receives a fellowship from the MacDowell Colony where he realizes the music part for Un avatar del diavolo, a La Biennale di Venezia commission for a musical theatre work based on Antonin Artaud text for the 2005 International Festival of Contemporary Music. In 2007 he composes the live electronics piece Accidenti agli armonici! Omaggio a BP commissioned by "Musiques & Recherches" (Bruxelles) for Bernard Parmegiani 80th birthday. In 2008 he is composer in residence at Kulturhuset USF in Bergen (Norway)  where he realizes Stecche for piano, hyperviolin and live electronics. In 2009 he realizes his first digital video+live electronics series Sindrome scamosciata.