Prof Victor Lazzarini

Music, ALL Institute

Professor in Music

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Biography

Biography

Victor Lazzarini is a Professor of Music at Maynooth University. A BMus graduate of the Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) in Brazil, he received his AMusD from the University of Nottingham, UK. His academic interests include musical signal processing and sound synthesis; computer music languages; electroacoustic and instrumental composition, and improvisation. He has authored over one hundred fifty peer-reviewed publications in his various specialist research areas. He is the author of Aulib and Aurora, two object-oriented libraries for audio signal processing, and is one of the project leaders for the Csound sound and music programming system.

Prof. Lazzarini has forged links with Industry, providing consultancy and research support to Irish companies in the area of computer music and running an Enterprise-Ireland funded commercialisation project. In addition to these activities, he is active as a composer of computer and instrumental music, having won the AIC/IMRO International Composition prize in 2006. His music is regularly performed in Ireland and abroad, and has been released by the Irish label FarPoint Recordings. Recent papers include ‘Parallel Computation of Time-Varying Convolution’ (Journal of New Music Research 2020), 'Improving the Chamberlin Digital State Variable Filter' (Journal of the Audio Engineering Society 2022),  'Linear and Nonlinear Digital Filters: From the Analog and Beyond' (Computer Music Journal 2022), 'Issues of ubiquitous music archaeology: shared knowledge, simulation, terseness, and ambiguity in early computer music' (Front.Sig.Proc. 2023) and 'A Digital Model for the Prologue Voltage Control Filter' (Journal of the Audio Engineering Society 2024)He has also completed the volume Ubiquitous Music Ecologies (with D. Keller, N. Otero, and L. Turchet, Routledge 2020), as well a research monograph for Oxford University Press, Spectral Music Design: A Computational Approach (2021).

Victor Lazzarini's music can be heard on Spotify and other streaming platforms.
Research Publications