Organisers
Università di Firenze, Dipartimento SAGAS
Tempo Reale, Centro di Ricerca Produzione e Didattica Musicale
The conference is part of Come suona la Toscana, a triennial research project by Università di Firenze in the framework of the PRIN 2017 initiative “Heritage, Festivals, Archives. Music and performing practices of oral tradition in the XXI Century” funded by the Italian Ministry for University and Research (MIUR).
Programme Committee
Maurizio Agamennone
Antonella Dicuonzo
Francesco Giomi
Daniele Palma
Ludovico Peroni
Giulia Sarno
Index
Wednesday, December 16
Thursday, December 17
Virtual Posters
Wednesday, December 16
Please note that the conference will be broadcast from
Italy, Central European Time (UTC+1)
9 am Conference Opening and Welcome Remarks
9.30 am S1 – Collecting Sounds of the Pandemic: Projects
Massimiliano Lopez (Istituto Centrale per i Beni Sonori e Audiovisivi), Farah Polato, Nicola Orio (Università di Padova), Francesco Liotard (LYS – Locate Your Sound)
Suoni della realtà e nuove “fonti sonore”: il ruolo attivo degli archivi fonografici
Roberto Neulichedl (Forum Nazionale per l’Educazione Musicale)
Ecofonie: #rUmori_di_fondo
Valeria Caputo (Independent), Sara Lenzi (sounDesign.info)
Resoconto dell’esperienza del progetto “The sound Outside – Listening to the world at Covid19 time”
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10.45 am Keynote 1
Laura Tedeschini Lalli (Università di Roma Tre)
Silence and a sense of space: Rome, Italy during complete lockdown and after
11.30 am Coffee break
12.00 am S2 – Listening to the Lockdown: Accounts
Renata Tańczuk, Robert Losiak, Sławomir Wieczorek (The Soundscape Research Studio, University of Wrocław)
The soundscape of Wroclaw in lockdown: Research report
Nakshatra Chatterjee (Independent), Srijita Biswas (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research)
Listening to the hustle and the hush: Urban sound in the time of pandemic
Alessandro Greppi, Diane Schuh (Université Paris 8)
Windows and balconies: Documenting the soundscapes of social movements in France under lockdown
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Alessandra Calanchi, Mario Corsi, Jan Marten Ivo Klaver, Massimo Russo (Università di Urbino)
Torricini sonori. Echi dal lockdown nella città-campus
1.30 pm Lunch break
2.30 pm S3 – Deconstructing the Sounds of the Pandemic: Reflections / 1
Dominika Moravčíková (Charles University)
Sounding out the quarantine: Public and private sound regimes during the pandemic
Héctor Cavallaro (Université Paris 8)
The tree makes noise when it falls: Thoughts on a sound paradox in the pandemic era
Theodoros Lotis (Ionian University)
What a blackbird has told me: Latent acoustic memory in the times of Covid-19
3.45 pm Keynote 2
Makis Solomos (Université Paris 8)
Four sounds against Capitalocene
4.30 pm Coffee break
5.00 pm S4 – Deconstructing the Sounds of the Pandemic: Reflections / 2
Esteban Buch (EHESS – École des hautes études en sciences sociales)
Covid-19 Beethoven-2020
James Deaville (Carleton University)
Colonizing the Coronavirus in China: Quarantine, media representation, and the sounds of neoliberal biopolitics
Emília Barna, Ágnes Patakfalvi-Czirják (Budapest University of Technology and Economics)
“Let’s stick together in this time of peril, and let common sense prevail”: The mainstreaming of populism through government-supported Hungarian lockdown music videos
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Thursday, December 17
Please note that the conference will be broadcast from
Italy, Central European Time (UTC+1)
9.30 am Keynote 3
Nicola Di Croce (Università Iuav di Venezia)
Listening to affective atmosphere
10.15 am S5 – Music Making in Times of Pandemic: Investigations / 1
Alessandro Bratus, Alessandro Caliandro, Flavio Antonio Ceravolo, Fulvia Caruso, Michela Garda (Università di Pavia)
Panel: La performance musicale prima, durante e dopo l’emergenza: scenari, analisi, prospettive
11.30 am Coffee Break
12.00 am S6 – Music Making in Times of Pandemic: Investigations / 2
Francesca Cireddu (Università di Roma Tor Vergata)
L’esperienza live ai tempi della pandemia
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Giacomo Bottà (University of Helsinki)
Renegotiating the Helsinki night through underground parties
Luca Befera (Università di Pavia)
Redefining musical practices in the virtual reality video game “Genesis”
1.15 pm Lunch break
2.30 pm S7 – Music Making in Times of Pandemic: Investigations / 3
Ignazio Macchiarella (Università di Cagliari)
Polifonie virtuali
Marco Lutzu (Università di Cagliari)
Gòcius po su virus: nuove creatività pandemiche nella Sardegna meridionale
Delia Dattilo (Università di Cagliari)
“Come Sing Along”: scenari e figure nell’interazione virtuale dei Sacred Harp Singers
Daniel Margolies (Virginia Wesleyan University), J. A. Strub (University of Texas at Austin)
#QuédateEnCasa y Huapango! Diasporic community and musical wellbeing in streamed live performances of musica huasteca
4.00 pm S8 – Music Making in Times of Pandemic: Investigations / 4
Pietro Frigato (Independent), Vlatko Kučan (Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg)
Diaries of a Q. – Collective online improvisation during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic
Michaël Spanu (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
No more shows? Searching for the heritage value of YouTube live music videos in pre-pandemic Montreal
Marcel Zaes (Brown University)
#otherbeats: Deviant and resistant time grids of the pandemic
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5.15 pm Coffee Break
5.45 pm Final Remarks and Discussion
8.00 pm Virtual Posters Discussion
Virtual posters will be available online on the conference YouTube channel and official website from December 14 until the end of the conference.
A live stream of the contents is planned for December 14 and 15 on the Facebook page of Come suona la Toscana at 6.oo pm (GMT+1).
A discussion session will take place on December 17 on the conference platform.
Emiliano Battistini (Università di Palermo)
Rimini Sound Map: fare comunità attraverso il suono
Alessandro De Cecco, Enzo Favre, Nicole Perret, Sophie Donnadieu (APNÉES – Association pour la PerformaNce, l’Électroacoustique et les Expérimentations Sonores, Grenoble)
Itinérances sonores: An improvised urban performance challenging distance and listening
Giuseppe Gavazza (AAU CRESSON – Centre de Recherche sur l’Espace Sonore et l’environnement urbain)
Ascolto il tuo cuore, città: audio testimonianze al tempo del COVID-19
Andrea Gozzi, Francesco Cretti, Marco Liuni (Mezzo Forte)
Your voice is not alone: l’esperienza dell’app “Voices In a Bottle” di Mezzo Forte
Dariusz Mazurowski (Polish Society for Electroacustic Music)
Electroacoustic music of the pandemic: New perspectives and creative web projects
Koji Nagahata (Fukushima University)
Two silent springs experienced in this decade in Japan: Soundscapes caused by the nuclear accidents and soundscapes caused by the Coronavirus pandemic
Dana Reason (Oregon State University)
“Lephroflanglis”: Signal for help: Sonic flares and improvised agency
Gustav Thomas, Elvin Brandhi (YEAH YOU) (Newcastle University; Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien)
Domestos: Bleached heathens in the wake of dead gods
Andrés Torres (Universidad de Medellin)
The soundscape of solidarity: An audio-walk in times of the pandemic
Scott Whiddon (Transylvania University), Kevin Holm-Hudson (University of Kentucky), Jim Gleason (Eastern Kentucky University)
Archipelago: The process of making and promoting an all instrumental record, in support of a nonprofit organization, during Covid
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