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Centro di Sonologia Computazionale (CSC) - University of Padova (Italy)

Introduction

C.S.C. has been mainly a centre of promotion and cultural diffusion of music informatics since its foundation. Thanks to close collaboration among experts of various disciplines, it has been possible to create an interdisciplinary group, which has become an international reference in the field, and has come to be part of contemporary music history. Activities of C.S.C. can be grouped into four main areas: scientific research, music research, production and performance of music works, teaching and dissemination.

Activities

In 1958-60 Prof. Giovanni Battista Debiasi, at the University of Padova, proposed an original work about an electronic organ based on photodiodes. This was the first step of a multidisciplinary future for electric/electronic engineering and music in Padova.

C.S.C scientific research was the premise for the other activities of musical informatics, and is still one of the main activities of the Centre. Today the Centre also supports production of musical works, thanks to significant investments in research that begun in 1979 when the Centre was officially founded. In the early days research was mainly focused on system of synthesis. Nowadays, the Centre is working in synergy with the SMC Group (Dep. of Information Engineering of the University of Padova) on preservation and restoration of audio documents, tuning of new sound synthesis techniques, analytical tools, techniques of sound spatialization, complex dynamic systems and analysis and morphing of expressive content in music performances. The excellence of results achieved over the years in all these fields earned C.S.C. a solid reputation within the international community. Today's C.S.C. activities rely on a composite group of people, which include the Center board of directors and personnel, guest researchers and musicians, and particularly on master students attending the courses "Sound and Music Computing" and "Informatics for Culture" at the Dep. of Information Engineering, which is historicaly tightly linked to the C.S.C.

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