El documental etnomusical y etnomusicológico como representación audiovisual de las músicas de tradición oral

El evento musical es un hecho cultural que incluye, además de la producción y fruición sonora, también un conjunto complejo de comportamientos motores de los "actores" musicales, de interacción social, de prácticas rituales y de costumbres ritualizadas, de un hábitat natural y de un contexto socio-cultural en el cual se manifiesta. Hacer música es por lo tanto, un fenómeno que comporta un conjunto de elementos textuales (musicales) y contextuales (socio-culturales), que no puede ser capturado por una grabadora y no pueden ser representados gráficamente a través de la transcripción y la descripción. Las tecnologías audiovisuales han ofrecido una contribución decisiva en el restablecimiento de la unidad ensorial en la representación de los eventos tradicionales de naturaleza multi-sensorial. El documento videoinematográfico es capaz de captar muchos aspectos de una cultura musical que no pueden ser captados por otros medios; permite así "ampliar" el campo visual de la etnomusicología, trasladando la atención de la percepción acústica hacia la percepción audio-visual.Departamento de Didática de la Expresión Musical, Plástica y Corpora

Wine and the vine in ancient Italy: an archaeological approach

This chapter surveys and synthesises the latest evidence for winemaking and viticulture in ancient Italy, from the prehistoric era through Late Antiquity. It combines various forms of archaeological evidence, including art historical and scientific analysis, drawn from across the Italian peninsula to assess the role, scale and development of wine and the grapevine in social, cultural and economic terms

Root, Tuber and Banana Food System Innovations

This open access book describes recent innovations in food systems based on root, tuber and banana crops in developing countries. These innovations respond to many of the challenges facing these vital crops, linked to their vegetative seed and bulky and perishable produce. The innovations create value, food, jobs and new sources of income while improving the wellbeing and quality of life of their users. Women are often key players in the production, processing and marketing of roots, tubers and bananas, so successful innovation needs to consider gender. These crops and their value chains have long been neglected by research and development, hence this book contributes to filling in the gap. The book features many outcomes of the CGIAR Research Program in Roots, Tubers and Banana (RTB), which operated from 2012-21, encompassing many tropical countries, academic and industry partners, multiple crops, and major initiatives. It describes the successful innovation model developed by RTB that brings together diverse partners and organizations, to create value for the end users and to generate positive economic and social outcomes. RTB has accelerated the scaling of innovations to reach many end users cost effectively. Though most of the book’s examples and insights are from Africa, they can be applied worldwide. The book will be useful for decision makers designing policies to scale up agricultural solutions, for researchers and extension specialists seeking practical ideas, and for scholars of innovation

Acoustemologies in Contact

"In this fascinating collection of essays, an international group of scholars explores the sonic consequences of transcultural contact in the early modern period. They examine how cultural configurations of sound impacted communication, comprehension, and the categorisation of people. Addressing questions of identity, difference, sound, and subjectivity in global early modernity, these authors share the conviction that the body itself is the most intimate of contact zones, and that the culturally contingent systems by which sounds made sense could be foreign to early modern listeners and to present day scholars. Drawing on a global range of archival evidence—from New France and New Spain, to the slave ships of the Middle Passage, to China, Europe, and the Mediterranean court environment—this collection challenges the privileged position of European acoustical practices within the discipline of global-historical musicology. The discussion of Black and non-European experiences demonstrates how the production of ‘the canon’ in the cosmopolitan centres of colonial empires was underpinned by processes of human exploitation and extraction of resources. As such, this text is a timely response to calls within the discipline to decolonise music history and to contextualise the canonical works of the European past. This volume is accessible to a wide and interdisciplinary audience, not only within musicology, but also to those interested in early modern global history, sound studies, race, and slavery.

Root, Tuber and Banana Food System Innovations

This open access book describes recent innovations in food systems based on root, tuber and banana crops in developing countries. These innovations respond to many of the challenges facing these vital crops, linked to their vegetative seed and bulky and perishable produce. The innovations create value, food, jobs and new sources of income while improving the wellbeing and quality of life of their users. Women are often key players in the production, processing and marketing of roots, tubers and bananas, so successful innovation needs to consider gender. These crops and their value chains have long been neglected by research and development, hence this book contributes to filling in the gap. The book features many outcomes of the CGIAR Research Program in Roots, Tubers and Banana (RTB), which operated from 2012-21, encompassing many tropical countries, academic and industry partners, multiple crops, and major initiatives. It describes the successful innovation model developed by RTB that brings together diverse partners and organizations, to create value for the end users and to generate positive economic and social outcomes. RTB has accelerated the scaling of innovations to reach many end users cost effectively. Though most of the book’s examples and insights are from Africa, they can be applied worldwide. The book will be useful for decision makers designing policies to scale up agricultural solutions, for researchers and extension specialists seeking practical ideas, and for scholars of innovation

Eighth International Symposium “Monitoring of Mediterranean Coastal Areas. Problems and Measurement Techniques”

The 8th International Symposium "Monitoring of Mediterranean Coastal Areas. Problems and Measurements Techniques" was organized by CNR-IBE in collaboration with FCS Foundation, and Natural History Museum of the Mediterranean and under the patronage of University of Florence, Accademia dei Geogofili, Tuscany Region and Livorno Province. It is the occasion in which scholars can illustrate and exchange their activities and innovative proposals, with common aims to promote actions to preserve coastal marine environment. Considering Symposium interdisciplinary nature, the Scientific Committee, underlining this holistic view of Nature, decided to celebrate Alexander von Humboldt; a nature scholar that proposed the organic and inorganic nature’s aspects as a single system. It represents a sign of continuity considering that in-presence Symposium could not be carried out due to the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions. Subjects are related to coastal topics: morphology; flora and fauna; energy production; management and integrated protection; geography and landscape, cultural heritage and environmental assets, legal and economic aspects

Méthodes de contrôle actif d'instruments de musique. Cas de la lame de xylophone et du violon.

In Musical Acoustics, modal control is commonly used to modify the vibration characteristics of musical instruments.The number of transducers used to control the structures of such systems is typically reduced. In addition, their mechanical properties and their localization are optimized, so that they do not disturb the vibration of the instrument nor the musician playing.In this thesis, we suggest a control method adapted to these constraints. It allows modifying the characteristics of the resonance peaks in the frequency response of the plant. This is achieved using a single sensor and the calculation of the actuator signal is based on the measurement itprovides.We apply the suggested method to a xylophone bar of which the mechanical properties are suitable for active control, and to a good quality violin made in a traditional way. For both instruments, we succeed to modify the frequency and the maximum gain of their resonances.Through the experiments carried out in the thesis, we use the modal control method in order to allocate the desired characteristics to the radiated sound of the musical instruments.Furthermore this method is suitable to study the relationship between the frequency responsesand the mechanical properties of the instruments.En acoustique musicale, la technique du contrôle actif est utilisée pour modifier les caractéristiques de vibration des instruments de musique.Pour de tels systèmes, le nombre de transducteurs utilisés est souvent réduit. De plus, leurs propriétés mécaniques et leurs positions sont optimisées de façon à ne pas perturber la vibration de l’instrument, ni le jeu du musicien.Nous proposons dans cette thèse une méthode de commande adaptée à ces contraintes. Elle permet de changer les caractéristiques des pics de résonance de la réponse fréquentielle du système. Pour cela, elle nécessite un seul capteur et calcule le signal des actionneurs uniquement à partir de la mesure qu’il fournit.La méthode proposée est appliquée à une lame de xylophone dont les propriétés mécaniques sont adaptées au contrôle actif, puis à un violon de bonne qualité fabriqué par un luthier. Dans les deux cas, elle parvient à modifier la fréquence et le gain maximal de leurs résonances.À travers ces expérimentations, la méthode de commande modale apparaît comme une technique capable d’attribuer les caractéristiques souhaitées au son rayonné par les instruments de musique. D’autre part, elle constitue un outil adapté pour étudier la relation entre leurs réponsesfréquentielles et leurs propriétés mécaniques

L'interazione nelle tecnologie musicali di realtá mista: Il prototipo e-mocumu como esempio multimodale con propositi terapeutici

El objetivo principal de esta tesis radica en el estudio de la interacción que ocurre entre el sujeto y el objeto en el campo de las tecnologías RMI (Realidad Mixta Interactiva), desde una perspectiva terapéutica. Por lo que, con el objetivo de observar como funciona dicha interacción, he considerado en primer lugar las estructuras generales de las tecnologías IDM (Interfaz Digital Musical), y en segundo, los recientes sistemas de captura de movimiento (MOCAP), proponiendo unas pocas tecnologías consideradas relevantes en este contexto. Las seis tecnologías escogidas son ejemplos significantes en el escenario IHC (Interfaz Humana Computarizada), desde un punto de vista histórico y como aplicación.Departamento de Didáctica de la Expresión Musical, Plástica y Corpora