The CSC equipment in the beginning
(Historical Hardware Archive in PDF)

CSC equipment

equipment 1981

IBM/7

Computer

Audio signal
Spectrum
Parafrasi

Today the CSC is organized in: a research laboratory (LIM1), a production laboratory (LIM2), a preservation working environment, a laboratory for experiments and installations, and an archive (Lungargine del Piovego 1, 35131 Padova, Italy)

The laboratory is equipped with sophisticated multipurpose systems which can demonstrate innovative use of new audio visual technology for producing impressive effects in music performance and audio documents preservation/restoration: tracking system, audio processing, haptic interface.

L2
L2
L2
L2


In the archive are stored hundreds of audio documents, often unpublished (open reel tapes, cassettes, digital audio tapes, phonographic discs, floppy disks, magneto-optical disks, optical disks, hard disk arrays) and millions of paper documents (scientific articles, books, correspondences, internal reports, musical scores) written by composers and researchers. A interesting section of the archive is dedicated to the preparatory materials of the musical works realized in CSC (synthesis sounds, source code, computer printout, etc.).
The archive is unquestionably an outstanding testimony of the musical history in the second half of XX Century.

Archive
Library (a very short example)
Tabulati
Computer printout
NPS
Giovanni De Poli, N.P.S., Teresa Rampazzi and Alvise Vidolin recordings
Archive
Electronic organ and its sound recording