1. biografia

[Amministratore]

Andrea CERA
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cap, luogo (Provincia), Italia
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mail: andreawax@yahoo.it; andymalo@gmail.com; andrea.cera@free.fr
http://andrea.cera.free.fr
luogo e data di nascita: Vicenza, 1969

Andrea Cera is an Italian electroacoustic composer, sound designer and sound installation artist.
Cera graduated with MA degree (Diploma) in Piano and Music Composition at the Conservatorio Cesare Pollini in Padova (Italy). He studied computer music at the Annual Programme of Composition and Musical Computing – IRCAM, in Paris.
Since 2000, Cera has worked with several choreographers including Hervé Robbe at the Centre Chorégraphique National du Havre, Edmond Russo and Shlomi Tuizer, Pascal Montrouge, Les Ballets de Monte Carlo.
Installation sites have included Centre Georges Pompidou, Fresnoy Studio in Lille-Tourcoing, institutions and art centres in Italy and France. One example of his work is Reactive Ambient Music (2005). This installation is a sort of a waiting room where reused external sounds of other installations are mixed with music material and influenced by an automatic generated program. In 2004 he realized NigthRun, an interactive installation based on the screaming of the visitors. They are here (2008) is an interactive video and sound installation created for the 104 centre in Paris, in collaboration with IRCAM.
Andrea Cera has worked on several research projects with IRCAM (Paris), NOTAM (Oslo), Integra Project, DIST (Genova). In 2011 he presented Urban Musical Game, in collaboration with researchers from the Real-Time Musical Interactions team at IRCAM – Centre Pompidou, the design agency NoDesign and Phonotonic. For this installation, they used augmented sports balls to manipulate and transform an interactive music environment.
Since 2009, Andrea Cera has developed sound design tools. One example of his work is the collaboration with a car manufacturer (Renault) and a research team in sound perception and design (Ircam/SPD) (sounds for the electric vehicle).
Andrea Cera’s music is concerned primarily with hybridization (popular and avant-garde, normal and extreme states of mind, human and monstrous) and two-faced and ambiguous acoustic situations: « L’hybride, le monstre, le zombie, le double sont à la fois l’objet de mes pièces et le modèle de leur stratégie sociale ».
Since 2006 he is a Lecturer in Sound Design at Brera Academy in Milan.