Edison Studio is a collective of composers and an electroacoustic music ensemble. It was founded in Rome in 1993 by the composers

Mauro Cardi Mauro Cardi (born July 22, 1955, in Rome, Italy) is an Italian composer. Biography Trained at the "Santa Cecilia" Conservatoire of Rome, under the guidance of Irma Ravinale, Gino Marinuzzi jr., Guido Turchi, he graduated in composition, instr ...

Luigi Ceccarelli Luigi Ceccarelli (born 20 April 1953 in Rimini, Italy) is an Italian composer.AA.VV. "Dizionario Enciclopedico Universale della Musica e dei Musicisti", diretto da Alberto Basso, Volume appendice 2005, UTET, Torino, 2004, p. 111, . Biography Luigi ...

, Fabio Cifariello Ciardi e Alessandro Cipriani. Since more than 20 years Edison Studio is active in the electroacoustic music scene, thanks to the awards and prizes it has received for its compositions (

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1993–1995, 1997, 1999–2003, 2008, Concours International de Musique Electroacoustique de

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1996–1998, Main Prize Musica Nova 1996,

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, Prix

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1997, 1998, etc.). Edison Studio has realized music productions for

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(2000 and 2001),

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(1999, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2016, 2017), RomaEuropa Festival 2016, 2017,

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Autumn Festival 2012, REDCAT Disney/

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Theater

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2005, etc. Among Edison Studio's productions: ''Zarbing'' CD, published by CNI Unite, featuring the Persian percussionist Mahammad Ghavi-Helm and the live cinema concerts for the following

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s: ''

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'', ''

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'' by

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, ''En Dirigeable sur le Champs de Bataille'', ''

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'', '' The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari'' by

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and ''

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'' by

Sergei Eisenstein Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein (russian: Сергей Михайлович Эйзенштейн, p=sʲɪrˈɡʲej mʲɪˈxajləvʲɪtɕ ɪjzʲɪnˈʂtʲejn, 2=Sergey Mikhaylovich Eyzenshteyn; 11 February 1948) was a Soviet film director, screenw ...

. The latter 3 soundtracks have been published on DVD by

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, in 2011, 2016 and 2017 in 5.1 surround sound and

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versions in ''Il Cinema Ritrovato'' series. The soundtracks by Edison Studio for silent films involve voices and environmental sounds in the music. Their sonic re-interpretations of those silent cinema masterpieces attracted the attention of several cinema experts such as Sergio Miceli and Giulio Latini and other university professors who wrote articles included in the book about the soundtracks by Edison Studio, which was published by Exorma with the support of the

Roma Tre University Roma Tre UniversityUniroma3.it
( it, Università degli Studi Roma Tre) is an Italian Computer Music Journal ''Computer Music Journal'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal that covers a wide range of topics related to digital audio signal processing and electroacoustic music. It is published on-line and in hard copy by MIT Press. The journal is accompa ...

'' (

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) about the world premiere of this piece at the International Computer Music Conference 2003 at the National University of Singapore.

Discography

* ''Zarbing'', Mahammad Ghavi Helm, zarb, daf, CNI – La Frontiera – RAI Trade (RTP0090) * ''Edison Studio'' (DVD), video works by Giulio Latini and Silvia Di Domenico Auditorium Edizioni *
Inferno
' DVD with Edison Studio soundtrack for the namesake silent film by Francesco Bertolini, Adolfo Padovan, Giuseppe De Liguoro; Cineteca di Bologna DVD, L'immagine Ritrovata series CR/10 *
Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari
' DVD with Edison Studio soundtrack for the namesake silent film by Robert Wiene; DVD

L'Immagine Ritrovata The Cineteca di Bologna is a film archive in Bologna, Italy. It was founded on 18 May 1962. Since 1989, it has been a member of the Fédération internationale des archives du film (FIAF). It has been a member of the Association des cinémath� ...

series CR/19
''Battleship Potemkin''
DVD with Edison Studio (featuring Vincenzo Core) soundtrack for the namesake silent film by

; DVD Cineteca di Bologna, collana L'Immagine Ritrovata CR/25

Bibliography

* *Cipriani, Alessandro; Cifariello Ciardi, Fabio; Cardi, Mauro; Ceccarelli, Luigi (December 2004). "Collective Composition: the Case of Edison Studio". ''Organised Sound''. Cambridge University Press. Issue 3, Volume 9: 261–270. ISSN 1355-7718

References

{{reflist Electroacoustic music composers Contemporary classical music ensembles Italian musical groups