Edison Studio

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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.{{Cite journal|last1=Cipriani|first1=Alessandro|author1-link=Alessandro Cipriani|last2=Cifariello Ciardi|first2=Fabio|author2-link=Fabio Cifariello Ciardi|last3=Cardi|first3=Mauro|author3-link=Mauro Cardi|last4=Ceccarelli|first4=Luigi|author4-link=Luigi Ceccarelli|date=December 2004|title=Collective composition: the case of Edison Studio|journal=Organised Sound|publisher=Cambridge University Press|issue=3|volume=9|pages=261–270|doi=10.1017/S1355771804000457 |s2cid=62176496 |issn=1355-7718}}

Since more than 30 years Edison Studio is active in the electroacoustic music scene, thanks to the awards and prizes it has received for its compositions (International Computer Music Conference1993–1995, 1997, 1999–2003, 2008, Concours International de Musique Electroacoustique de Bourges 1996–1998, Main Prize Musica Nova 1996, Prague, Prix Ars Electronica 1997, 1998, etc.). Edison Studio has realized music productions for Venice Biennale (2000 and 2001), Ravenna Festival (1999, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2016,{{Cite web|url=http://www.ravennafestival.org/en/events/the-blackmail-project/|title=Edison Studio concert at Ravenna festival 2016}} 2017{{Cite web|url=http://www.ravennafestival.org/en/events/gabinetto-del-dottor-caligari/|title=concert edison studio at Ravenna Festival}}), RomaEuropa Festival{{Cite web|url=https://romaeuropa.net/en/|title=RomaEuropa Festival website|date=22 March 2022 }} 2016,{{Cite web|url=https://romaeuropa.net/festival-2016/blackmail-projectlive-cinema-per-blackmail-di-alfred-hitchcock-1929/|title=cine concert by Edison Studio Blackmail Romaeuropa Festival 2016|date=18 May 2016 }} 2017,{{Cite web|url=https://romaeuropa.net/en/festival-2017/das-cabinet-des-dr-caligari/|title=cine-concert Caligari edison studio RomaEuropa Festival 2017|date=29 May 2017 }} Moscow Autumn Festival 2012,{{Cite web|url=http://www.ccmm.ru/en/calendar/news/?do=2012|title=Centre for Contemporary Music Moscow site quoting Edison Studio's Concert at Concert Hall of the Composers House for Moscow Autumn Festival}} REDCAT Disney/California Institute of the Arts Theater Los Angeles 2005,{{Cite web|url=https://www.redcat.org/event/scream-goes-movies-cabinet-dr-caligari|title=Edison Studio concert at Redcat Disney/Calarts Theater Los Angeles|access-date=2017-11-17|archive-date=2017-11-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171117175611/https://www.redcat.org/event/scream-goes-movies-cabinet-dr-caligari|url-status=dead}} 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 films: The Last Days of Pompeii, Blackmail by Alfred Hitchcock, Metropolis (1927 film) by Fritz Lang, En dirigeable sur le Champs de Bataille,{{Cite web|url=http://www.cinetecadibologna.it/evp_1914_cinema_100_anni_fa/programmazione/app_5832/from_2014-06-29/h_2145|title=Concert for Festival "Il Cinema Ritrovato" at Piazza Maggiore Bologna}} L'Inferno, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari by Robert Wiene and Battleship Potemkin by Sergei Eisenstein. The latter 3 soundtracks have been published on DVD{{Cite web|url=http://cinestore.cinetecadibologna.it/bookshop/dettaglio/47|title=Inferno DVD soundtrack by Edison Studio}}{{Cite web|url=http://cinestore.cinetecadibologna.it/bookshop/dettaglio/105|title=Caligari DVD soundtrack by Edison Studio}}{{Cite web|url=http://cinestore.cinetecadibologna.it/bookshop/dettaglio/120|title=Battleship Potemkin soundtrack by Edison Studio}} by Cineteca di Bologna,{{Cite web|url=http://www.cinetecadibologna.it/en/|title=Cineteca di Bologna website}} in 2011, 2016 and 2017 in 5.1 surround sound 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 {{lang|it|Edison Studio, il silent film e l'elettronica in relazione intermediale}}{{Cite book|title=Edison Studio, il silent film e l'elettronica in relazione intermediale|publisher=Exorma|year=2014|isbn=978-88-95688-89-3|editor-last=Gazzano|editor-first=Marco Maria|location=Rome}} 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 (MIT Press) about the world premiere of this piece at the International Computer Music Conference 2003 at the National University of Singapore.{{Cite journal|last=Kim-Boyle|first=David|date=Summer 2004|title=International Computer Music Conference 2003: Boundaryless Music|url=http://www.computermusicjournal.org/reviews/28-2/icmc-music.html|journal=Computer Music Journal|publisher=MIT Press|issue=2|pages=77–80|doi=10.1162/014892604323112266 |s2cid=709136 |url-access=subscription}}