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Osservazioni preliminari sulle variazioni nictemereli della comunità a Misidacei dello Stagnone di Marsala. (Sicilia Occidentale)
2000
The first data on day-night variability of the mysid assemblage in the Stagnone di Marsala (Western Sicily) are reported. The fluctuations of populations structure are shown for each species.
Indagini nell'area ad ovest del Tempio della Vittoria ad Himera
2021
Himera: New investigations in the area West of the Tempio della Vittoria · The University of Palermo has started a new cycle of field investigations in the “lower town” of Himera, with the aim of answering some questions about the relationships between the Tempio della Vittoria, the residential districts, and the agora, that remained to be clarified after the important results produced by the studies on the urban development of the Greek city over the past forty years. This paper presents some initial results and research perspectives from the first excavation soundings and geophysical survey of 2021. The first findings strongly suggest that the agora extended much further south than previo…
A Case of Cooperative Sound Design
2016
In this design case study, protocol and linkographic analysis are applied to a task of cooperative vocal sketching, proposed in the scope of educational research activities. The understanding of the cognitive behaviors involved in sound creation is aimed at setting the ground for the development of rigorous, designerly evaluation practices tailored to sound design, all the way to the final interactive product. Relevant qualitative and quantitative information about the creative process informs the assessment and possibly improvement of sound design methods.
Quanta in Sound, the Sound of Quanta: A Voice-Informed Quantum Theoretical Perspective on Sound
2022
Humans have a privileged, embodied way to explore the world of sounds, through vocal imitation. The Quantum Vocal Theory of Sounds (QVTS) starts from the assumption that any sound can be expressed and described as the evolution of a superposition of vocal states, i.e., phonation, turbulence, and supraglottal myoelastic vibrations. The postulates of quantum mechanics, with the notions of observable, measurement, and time evolution of state, provide a model that can be used for sound processing, in both directions of analysis and synthesis. QVTS can give a quantum-theoretic explanation to some auditory streaming phenomena, eventually leading to practical solutions of relevant sound-processing…
The Sound Design Toolkit
2017
The Sound Design Toolkit is a collection of physically informed sound synthesis models, specifically designed for practice and research in Sonic Interaction Design. The collection is based on a hierarchical, perceptually founded taxonomy of everyday sound events, and implemented by procedural audio algorithms which emphasize the role of sound as a process rather than a product. The models are intuitive to control – and the resulting sounds easy to predict – as they rely on basic everyday listening experience. Physical descriptions of sound events are intentionally simplified to emphasize the most perceptually relevant timbral features, and to reduce computational requirements as well. Keywo…
Salvatore Sciarrino. The Sicilian alchemist composer
2012
Salvatore Sciarrino (Palermo, 1947) began his career in the fervent climate of the six Settimane Internazionali Nuova Musica. Still very young he attracted the attention of the musical world, with his sonorous invention full of startling innovation that was to make him one of the protagonists of the contemporary musical panorama. Sciarrino is today the best-known and most performed Italian composer. His catalogue is a prodigiously large one, and his career is dotted with prestigious prizes and awards. Alchemically transmuting sound, finding new virginity in it has for fifty years been the objective of his music. Timbric experimentation is the goal of his virtuosity. The prevailing use of ha…
Dall’antropologia della musica all’acustemologia
2021
Il testo delinea una storia dell'etnomusicologia a partire dalla pubblicazione di "Antropolologia della musica" di A. P. Merriam, per arrivare alle nuove opzioni metodologiche proposte da Steven Feld con l'antropologia del suono e l'acustemologia. The text outlines the development of studies in the field of the so called Ethtnomusicology from the publishing of the book "Antthropology of Music" by A. P. Merriam up to new approaches such as "anthropology of sound" and "acoustemology" proposed by Steven Feld.
Etnografie del suono tra natura e cultura
2020
Relationship between nature and culture has deeply changed within the years, from an almost expected opposition of the two terms to a total overthrow which implies their mutual entanglement. The aim of this contribution is to show how such a change has affected oral musical tradition studies, focusing on some topics belong-ing to different theoretical-methodological frames and different historical periods: from comparative musicology to ethnomusicology, from anthropology of music to biomusicology (in reference also to evolutive musicology and to zoomusicology), from anthropology of sound to acustemology. Among the themes dealt with: the “na-ture” of musical scales, the phylogeny of musical …
Presentazione a: Il mondo sonoro dei Bosavi : espressioni musicali, legami sociali e natura nella foresta pluviale della Papua Nuova Guinea
2021
Prefazione al libro "Il mondo sonoro dei Bosavi" di Steven Feld. Preface to the book "The sound of Bosavi's Word" by Steven Feld.
La videoripresa come necessità cognitiva. Il caso dei canti per la battitura del gesso in Sicilia
2021
I canti dei gessai siciliani non sono mai stati documentati nella letteratura etnografica. Esistevano solo alcune audioregistrazioni realizzate fra il 1954 e il 1988. Il testo analizza tutte le fonti disponibili, riviste attraverso l'esperienza di ricerca direttamente condotta dall'autore, che nel 1993 filma per la prima volta l'azione dei gessai ritmata dal canto. Grazie alla videodocumentazione è stato possibile comprendere l'esatta relazione che si determina fra canto e dinamica ergologica. The work songs of Sicilian gypsum miners have never been documented in ethnographic literature. There were only a few audio recordings made between 1954 and 1988. The text analyzes all available sourc…