Adriano Abbado







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  • SISEA1990, FISEA

    Abbado made his first experiments with photography and ambient sounds in 1972. In 1977 he got the degree of Electronic Music Composition at the Milan Conservatory. In 1981 he began working with digital images and sounds. Between 1982 and 1986 he taught Computer Graphics at the Istituto Europeo di Design in Milan, while in 1985 he taught Electronic Music at the Turin Conservatory. In 1985 he co-authored the book  Immagini con il computer, published by Arnoldo Mondadori Editore. In 1986 his work  Isomorfismi Suono Luce was shown at the Venice Biennale. In the same year he received a Fulbright scholarship to study at the MIT Media Laboratory, where in 1988 got a M.S. degree with the thesis Perceptual Correspondences of Abstract Animation and Synthetic Sound.


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  • Italy


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