---
id: milan
title: "Studio di Fonologia"
year: 1955
category: "Synthesizers"
lang: en
canonical: https://nodemusic.cc/node/milan
source: node.music
---

# Studio di Fonologia (1955)

Synthesizers · https://nodemusic.cc/node/milan

## Summary

In Milan, Luciano Berio and Bruno Maderna decided not to choose sides. Their studio became a bridge between Paris (recording) and Cologne (synthesis). Here, the sound of the live voice and the electronic signal became equal partners.

## Full text

If the WDR studio was a temple of pure sine waves, Milan became a laboratory of freedom, largely thanks to the technical genius of Marino Zuccheri. The studio's arsenal included the unique 'Tempophon' — a device with rotating heads that allowed changing the duration of a sound without altering its pitch.

Work in the studio was physical labor: creating one minute of music could take weeks of cutting and splicing tape. There was no automation. It was in this environment that the idea was born that electronic signals and the human voice are equal partners that can be modulated and mixed into a single, new sonic matter.

## People

- Luciano Berio (1925–2003) — Italian composer.

## Connections

### Influenced by

- [Musique Concrète](https://nodemusic.cc/node/schaeffer.md) - INSPIRED
- [Elektronische Musik / WDR](https://nodemusic.cc/node/wdr.md) - INSPIRED

### Influenced

- [Thema (Omaggio a Joyce)](https://nodemusic.cc/node/thema.md) - ENABLED

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio_di_fonologia_musicale_di_Radio_Milano