Edison Studio is a collective of composers and an electroacoustic music ensemble. It was founded in Rome in 1993 by the composers Mauro Cardi, Luigi Ceccarelli, 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 Bourges 1996–1998, Main Prize Musica Nova 1996,

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

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(2000 and 2001), Ravenna Festival (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

silent film A silent film is a film with no synchronized Sound recording and reproduction, recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue). Though silent films convey narrative and emotion visually, various plot elements (such as a setting or era) ...

s: ''

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'', '' Blackmail'' by Alfred Hitchcock, ''En Dirigeable sur le Champs de Bataille'', ''

L'Inferno ''L'Inferno'' is a 1911 Italian silent film, loosely adapted from '' Inferno'', the first canticle of Dante Alighieri's ''Divine Comedy''. ''L'Inferno'' took over three years to make, and was the first full-length Italian feature film. Plot Da ...

'', '' The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari'' by Robert Wiene and ''

Battleship Potemkin '' Battleship Potemkin'' (russian: Бронено́сец «Потёмкин», ''Bronenosets Potyomkin''), sometimes rendered as ''Battleship Potyomkin'', is a 1925 Soviet silent drama film produced by Mosfilm. Directed and co-written by S ...

'' 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, scree ...

. The latter 3 soundtracks have been published on DVD by

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, in 2011, 2016 and 2017 in

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and Stereophonic sound 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. Edison Studio's soundtrack for ''The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari'' has had excellent reviews, including the one by David Kim-Boyle in the '' Computer Music Journal'' (

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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 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