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Tempo RealeCentro Tempo Reale was founded by Luciano Berio in 1987 with the purpose of undertaking "activities of musical research, production, and education, the promotion of musical culture, the organization of training and advanced courses in music in accordance with the Association's objectives", as well as promoting "contacts with other cultural centers, musical and otherwise, in Italy and abroad." Since its foundation, Tempo Reale has been a center specifically dedicated to the research, development and use of new technologies in music - computer music, spatialization of sound and real-time signal processing - and has become a national and international point of reference for composers and musicians active in the field. Tempo Reale is supported by RAI (Italian National Radio and Television Authority), the Region of Tuscany and the City of Florence. The Center receives also State funding from the Ministero per i Beni e le Attivit Culturali. The activities of the Center are divided into two big areas. This organizational structure reflects artistic and scientific considerations and is designed to best enabled the development and promotion of musical culture. At present, Tempo Reale's headquarters is located in Villa Strozzi in Florence. Tempo Reale's organizational and administration offices are located in the villa, along with two production studios. Another production studio, Production Studio C, is located at RAI's building in Florence. The center uses an array of audio and MIDI technology systems, as well as various computer systems. In addition, the Center has access to the Limonaia of Villa Strozzi for certain performances.In recent years, the Center has played a crucial role in numerous important musical events in Italy and abroad. Tempo Reale has collaborated in many performances of Luciano Berio's works: Ofanm, presented all over the world; Outis, performed at La Scala in Milan in 1996 and 1999, and later at the Thtre du Chtelet in Paris; Cronaca del Luogo, the musical theater piece that inaugurated the Salzburg Festival of 1999; Altra Voce, performed at Carnegie Hall in New York in 2001, at Kioi Hall in Tokyo in 2002, and in Rome in 2003. In addition, many other composers have also created, and are currently creating, original works (including symphonic music, chamber music, works for the radio and musical theater) in the Center's studios. This list of collaborating composers includes Giorgio Battistelli, Fabrizio De Rossi Re, Adriano Guarnieri, Daniele Lombardi, Luca Lombardi, Fabio Nieder, Betty Olivero, Salvatore Sciarrino, Marco Stroppa and Fabio Vacchi. Other recent initiatives involve important collaborations with the RAI Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale and forays into theater and dance, in productions where Tempo Reale has collaborated with the Metastasio Theater of Prato, the Venice Biennale, the Micha van Hoecke Ensemble and the Virgilio Sieni Dance Company, among others.The Center often hosts young composers-in-residence, as well as Italian and foreign trainees in music technology. The Center shares its scientific and musical innovations with the music community in regularly held courses and seminars. Tempo Reale's conferences and lectures attract internationally renowned speakers, addressing the state of contemporary music today. These initiatives are accompanied by a series of special projects focused on relations between sound and space, including the engineering of large-scale sound installations for the Hannover Expo and for the inauguration of Auditorium in Rome, collaboration with AdF in designing and realizing audio and music systems for the Florence Airport, and collaboration with the Province of Florence in planning the Lorenzo Hall at Palazzo Medici Riccardi in Florence.Production activities include the restoration and re-editing of analog electronic music created from the 1950's on, as well as the performance of major works from the electro-acoustic and instrumental repertoire of such composers as Berio, Maderna, Kagel and Stockhausen.Centro Tempo Reale also plays an important role in coordinating research in the field of music technology, by organizing seminars, conferences and workshops of international importance addressing the most pressing problems of today.The application of new technologies in music education has resulted in the planning and development of specific methodologies. Among the projects currently being carried out is a method for teaching music and sound structures to groups of children aged 6 to 10. This method has met with notable success in Italy, where courses have been held in Radicondoli, Florence, Siena, Milan, Rome and other cities, both in schools and elsewhere. The method has also been presented on the international level, arousing interest in various fields ranging from the cognitive sciences to music pedagogy. External links *Centro Tempo Reale
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