Proceedings of the Sound and Music Computing Conference 2013, SMC 2013, Stockholm, Sweden Visions of sound: The Centro di Sonologia Computazionale, from Computer Music to Sound and Music Computing Sergio Canazza Giovanni De Poli Alvise Vidolin CSC-DEI, Univ. Padova CSC-DEI, Univ. Padova CSC-DEI, Univ. Padova
[email protected] [email protected] [email protected] ABSTRACT and hardware devices (filters, computers) conducted by Pa- duan researchers have since then produced state-of-the art Centro di Sonologia Computazionale (CSC) scientific re- results from both the technological and musical standpoints, search was the premise for subsequent activities of musi- and have generated collaborations with several renowned cal informatics, and is still one of the main activities of the contemporary composers. CSC engineering skills have been Centre. Today CSC activities rely on a composite group used to build electronic and digital instruments, augmented of people, which include the Center board of directors and reality systems, immersive video-games, and measuring personnel, guest researchers and musicians, and particu- instruments. It has also led to advances in such widely larly on master students attending the course “Sound and differing fields as sound design, musical cultural heritage Music Computing” at Dept. of Information Engineering preservation and promotion, and cognitive/physical reha- (DEI), which is historically tightly linked to the CSC. The bilitation. dissemination of scientific results as well as the relation- The CSC is carrying out a project for the preservation ship between art and science is hard and surely not trivial. and restoration of electrophone equipments and audio doc- With this aim, this paper describes an exhibition that illus- uments.