The M.A.R.S. (Musical Audio Research Station), a DSP-powered workstation developed at the IRIS research center in the 1990s has been resurrected to its glory and started singing again! This happened in a show of the Macchine Nostre collective, during a theater concert for the festival Font D'Art, near Ancona, Italy. Here it is featured in a short free-impro sequence together with processed voices from old vinyls. Mr. Riccardo Pietroni is performing with the MARS using a rando

I'm glad to announce that today my university, Università Politecnica delle Marche, is featured in one of the main national newspapers, il Venerdì de La Repubblica. The 2-page article, describes the music industry of my region, its history and the current status. Facts and figures are given, showing that our region has, by far, the largest number of employee of all Italian regions, in this manufacturing field. The article was written after the dissemination activities of the