When the computer came into the music scene: the collaboration between the Centro di Sonologia Computazionale and La Biennale di Venezia

Abstract

A real breakthrough in the development of technological art and computer music was the collaboration era between the Centro di Sonologia Computazionale (CSC) and the Venice Biennale in the early 1980s. Thanks to this collaboration, computer music, which in those years was confined to research laboratories with auditions for insiders, entered the global scene of contemporary music. This interview by Sergio Canazza, current director of CSC, with two leading figures of that endeavor aims to bear witness to that creative turning point.