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MARTlab - Music and Audio, Research, Recovery, Restoration and Technologies

The MART^Lab research and production centre for musical technologies, was founded as a joint project of the
Conservatory of Music of Florence "Luigi Cherubini"
and the Institute ISTI of National Research Council of Italy,
with the external contribution of the Tuscany branch of the
National Broadcasting Company RAI.

The main mission of MART^Lab is the preservation and restoration of Audio Documents by transferring them to digital domain. We consider preservation a strategic issue in the field of recorded memories, that requires urgent action, since most of the archives produced on magnetic tapes and other more obsolete media over the last decades are rapidly deteriorating.

The search for the most proper media for audio recording, based on digital techniques, and for the related preservation protocols, is a second basic issue that takes into account the limited life span of the present day available media.

The laboratory has acquired a sound experience in dealing with the analysis of tape media, assessment of physical condition and original recording parameters, digitalisation process, restoration and all related handling problems. The laboratory is equipped with the most advanced tools for performing its tasks according to international recognised standards.

From a higher perspective the Laboratory operates in the broader domain of the new musical technologies: it is active in the theoretical and applied research in analog/digital technologies, in the audio production and post-production. It draws its experience from the over 20-year activities in the area of research applied to music that were centred around the first classes in Italy of Musical Informatics and Electronic Music organised by Pietro Grossi. These activities were performed within the Research Group of Computational Musicology, a joint team of the Institute ISTI-CNR of Pisa (formerly CNUCE) and the Conservatory of Florence.

Contact: Francesco Carreras
Web site: http://www.martlab.it

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