Creative Europe
Desk UK
for Culture

This project will re-create ‘virtually’ the original setup of the Studio di Fonologia Musicale (RAI, Milan, Italy). This will allow people to perform the compositions that have been realized precisely with these instruments/devices. A relevant and interesting case study will be the realization of Pousseur’s ‘open form’ composition Scambi from 1957. The aim of the project is to create a permanent installation at the Milan Museum of Musical Instruments, consisting of a SW-HW system that re-creates the electronic lutherie of the Studio di Fonologia Musicale with particular reference to the aforementioned composition Scambi. The installation will give scholars the opportunity to think about ‘open form’ compositions by experiencing the direct manipulation of sounds and equipment in this specific creative process. Furthermore they will learn an important piece of music history: the birth of electronic music and its connection with the most important radiophonic European institutions.