Reactivation/virtualization of the CSC system at the University of Padua

This paper presents the initial results of an ongoing project aimed at the analysis, reactivation, and virtualization of the digital system of the Centro di Sonologia Computazionale (CSC), a reference center for the production of computer music since the 1970's at world level. After a brief summary of the history of the CSC, the paper discusses the reactivation of a particularly representative device, the Digital PDP11, used by CSC for the creation of the historically relevant musical work by Luigi Nono Prometeo. Finally, the paper presents the results obtained by the CSC over several years in the field of digitization of audio archives, with the definition of a preservation methodology that led to the development of an IEEE standard on December 2022.