Digital Philology in Audio Long-term Preservation: A Multidisciplinary Project on Experimental Music

This paper presents the methodology of a multidisciplinary project aimed at the preservation of the audio collection of the Centro Studi Luciano Berio, coordinated by and carried out at the laboratory for audio preservation and restoration of the Centro di Sonologia Computazionale (CSC) in Padua. The expected output of the project is a digital audio collection of preservation copies that meet the requirements of accuracy, reliability and authenticity necessary to serve as a valid documentary source for scholarly studies. The paper addresses the problem of digital philology applied to audio documents, and provides salient information about the implementation of the digitization process.