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In 1958 in Buenos Aires, with Fausto Maranca and some schematics from the Studio di Fonologia in Milan, Francisco Kröpfl founded the Estudio de Fonologia Musical, the first electronic music lab in Latin America. It was situated within the structure and physical space of the Acoustics Laboratory at the School of Architecture at the University of Buenos Aires.
Through the 1960s, the studio staff grew and new equipment was developed and acquired. In 1967, Kröpfl initiated a project to build a synthesizer. It was built by three students and used in a performance, with twelve composers simultaneously operating the equipment, at the 10th International Architecture Conference in Buenos Aires.
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Left: Francisco Kröpfl and the synthesizer in 1996. Photo by Joel Chadabe.
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