With the advent of digital technologies, the computer has become a generalized tool for
music production. Music can be seen as a creative form of human–human communication …

This article presents a methodology for the active preservation of, and the access to,
magnetic tapes of audio archives. The methodology has been defined and implemented by …

Electroacoustic music on analog magnetic tape is characterized by several carrier-related
specificities that must be considered when creating a copy for digital preservation. The tape …

Research in computer music at the University of Padua, Italy, began in the early 1970s and
was formalized in 1979 by establishing the Centro di Sonologia Computazionale (CSC) …

This paper presents and discusses a case-study where a video-game is the means through
which the user is induced to learn to use a complex and not-intuitive control interface such …

During the last 40 years, a large number of musical works was composed and recorded at
the Centro di Sonologia Computazionale (CSC) of the University of Padova. The problem of …

This paper presents the early developments of a recently started research project, aimed at
studying from a multidisciplinary perspective an exceptionally well preserved ancient pan …

Digital technology in museum practice provides new means of interaction with artifacts and
collections. In particular, we need interactive installations in order to encourage and …

This work investigates computational musicology for the study of tape music works tackling
the problems concerning stemmatics. These philological problems have been analyzed with …

Multimedia archives face the problem of obsolescing and degrading analogue media (eg,
speech and music recordings and video art). In response, researchers in the field have …