Musica Elettronica / Computer Music 1966-1972

LP

2024

Ltd.210

Deluxe cover with handmade silver foil printed on 450g paper, also includes a 30x30cm double-sided insert with detailed notes and a SMET / Enore Zaffiri exhaustive chronology. The Italian early electronic music scene has been at the core of Die Schachtel’s activity since their very beginnings in the early 2000s. The record that inaugurated the label’s venture was Pietro Grossi’s “Musica Automatica” (2003), followed in 2004 by the very first recording in LP format by Enore Zaffiri, founder of SMET - Turin’s Electronic Music Studio. The Milanese label now returns with a new chapter in their celebrated “Silver series”, a long-due first time reissue of “Musica Elettronica / Computer Music 1966-1972” by SMET Studio di Musica Elettronica di Torino. Augmented with three previously unreleased bonus tracks, this is early '70s Italian electronic avant-garde music at its best

The SMET - Studio di Musica Elettronica was born in Turin in 1964, from an idea by Enore Zaffiri. In the beginning the Studio worked with rudimentary equipment, aiming to disseminate knowledge of this avant-garde musical sector through conferences and auditions and, at the same time, developing its own sound experiences. The approach to the new equipment followed a rigorous research method with a structuralist approach, in close relationship with visual operators orbiting around the “Studio di Informazione Estetica” (Aesthetic Information Studio). In 1966 an experimental Electronic Music course was opened for young musicians and university students interested in musical experimentation

In 1968 the Italian Ministry of Education approved the establishment of an experimental course in Electronic Music at the “G. Verdi” Conservatory in Turin. In 1970/71, with the advent of the synthesizer, a radical methodological and ideological change occurred. After rigorous structuralism, the live concert was introduced: the synthesizer became the instrument with which to build an ideal bridge between electronic music and the musical art of the past. With the collaboration of Ellen Kappel, the voice, not treated electronically, favoured the union between the oldest instrument and the most modern one. The activity developed in various sectors: concerts, musical theatre, ballet, films, video tapes

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