Random acts of violins : Oliver Schroer and two British Columbia fiddle communities

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Reaching Out, Turning Home: The Musical Projects of Filippo Gambetta, Genoan Organetto Player

This paper examines the various projects of Filippo Gambetta (b. 1981), a diatonic accordion (organetto) player from Genoa in Northwestern Italy whose collaborative network includes Canadian, Finnish, Belgian, Irish and Breton musicians. I propose that transnational engagements established through touring often serve to reinforce identifications with home, as individuals reflexively re-imagine it in relation to the universalistic folk festival milieu. In this process, the local is reconfigured as glocal. This paper is based upon multi-site fieldwork in which I performed with Gambetta on tour and visited him at his home in Genoa.Cet article examine les différents projets de Filippo Gambetta (né en 1981), joueur d’accordéon diatonique (organetto) de Gênes, ville du nord-ouest de l’Italie, travaillant avec un réseau de collaborateurs parmi lesquels se trouvent des musiciens canadiens, finlandais, belges, irlandais et bretons. J’émets l’hypothèse que les engagements transnationaux contractés par le biais des tournées servent à renforcer l’identification des individus avec leur propre lieu d’origine, car ils le ré-imaginent de manière réflexive en relation avec le milieu universalisant des festivals de musique folklorique. Durant ce processus, le local se reconfigure en glocal. Cet article se base sur un travail de terrain multi-site, au cours duquel j’ai joué avec Gambetta en tournée en plus de lui rendre visite chez lui à Gênes

Paarl Africa Underground Laboratory (PAUL)

International audienceEstablishing a deep underground physics laboratory to study, amongst others, double beta decay, geoneutrinos, reactor neutrinos and dark matter has been discussed for more than a decade within the austral African physicists' community. PAUL, the Paarl Africa Underground Laboratory, is an initiative foreseeing an open international laboratory devoted to the development of competitive science in the austral region. It has the advantage that the location, the Huguenot tunnel, exists already and the geology and the environment of the site is appropriate for an experimental facility. The paper describes the PAUL initiative, presents the physics prospects and discusses the capacity for building the future experimental facility

Paarl Africa Underground Laboratory (PAUL)

International audienceEstablishing a deep underground physics laboratory to study, amongst others, double beta decay, geoneutrinos, reactor neutrinos and dark matter has been discussed for more than a decade within the austral African physicists' community. PAUL, the Paarl Africa Underground Laboratory, is an initiative foreseeing an open international laboratory devoted to the development of competitive science in the austral region. It has the advantage that the location, the Huguenot tunnel, exists already and the geology and the environment of the site is appropriate for an experimental facility. The paper describes the PAUL initiative, presents the physics prospects and discusses the capacity for building the future experimental facility