Marcello Messina

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• PhD
• Chief Research Fellow at Southern Federal University

Traditional images of the South of Italy are constructed on the premise of the negation of the positive values that allegedly define the Italian nation, and Southern populations are normally portrayed as lazy, backwards, inclined to crime and illegal behav-iours, etc. In this article, I evaluate the ways in which contemporary Italian cinema resorts...

This paper explores participatory and socially engaged practices in ubiquitous music (ubimus). We discuss recent advances that target timbre as their focus while incorporating semantic strategies for knowledge transfer among participants. Creative Semantic Anchoring (ASC from the original in Portuguese) is a creative-action metaphor that shows prom...

Part of the recent developments in Ubiquitous Music (ubimus) research involve the proposal of the Internet of Musical Stuff (IoMuSt) as an expansion and complement to the Internet of Musical Things (IoMusT). The transition from IoMusT to IoMuSt entails a critique of blockchain and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) as technologies for allotment, disciplina...

Situated in the Mesoregion of the Acre River, Plácido de Castro is a small municipality in the Brazilian state of Acre. In 2015, with the consent of the authorities, a group of people of Huni Kuin ethnicity occupied an abandoned, state-owned piece of land in the municipal territory, namely, the Parque Ecológico. For two years, the Huni Kuin group h...

Since the closing of the first wave of ubiquitous music research, our community has expanded the diversity and depth of its challenges. Some threads have followed a steady path of development and at this point may be considered established frameworks. This state of affairs – featuring composites of musical outcomes, technological deployments and co...

Neste artigo, buscamos analisar a reação da música engajada a massacres perpetrados pelo Estado e as maneiras pelas quais a indignação popular e a criação musical dialogam na rememoração desses massacres. Tentaremos evidenciar o envolvimento entre os compositores e suas respectivas realidades sociais e políticas, assim como buscar as formas com as...

Prominent scholarship on the Italian South has reflected on the otherized, inferiorized and racialized positionality of the region’s territories, cultures and populations within the national Italian debate, with the North functioning as an allegedly virtuous norm that the South constantly fails to conform to. The gendered imagery that inscribes thi...

A recent initiative within ubimus research contemplates the development of an internet of musical stuff (IoMuSt) as a concept that interacts with and expands the pre-existing rubric of the internet of musical things (IoMusT). Opposed to the ontological fixedness of things, stuff is pliable, fairly amorphous, changeable depending on usage, context-r...

Through an ecological approach to creative practice (henceforth ecomprovisation), this project deals with the expansion of the creative strategies applicable to everyday contexts. Within ubiquitous music (ubimus), we target the convergence of sonification methods with the application of ecological models within the context of comprovisation. These...

Since the closing of the first wave of ubiquitous music research, our community has expanded the diversity and depth of its challenges. Some threads have followed a steady path of development and at this point may be considered established frameworks. This state of affairs-featuring composites of musical outcomes, technological deployments and conc...

We present the results of a collective creative experience, conducted under the principle of an horizontal collaboration between human agents and artificial media generators. The finished product is a musical video that reflects on the phenomenology of an aesthetically pliable musical internet, where human and non-human agents replace the fixed ont...

O artigo explora a criatividade musical no contexto cotidiano, fora de ambientes musicais especializados. O estudo foca a participação de pessoas leigas em música utilizando tecnologias e processos criativos no seu dia a dia. Com base na música ubíqua (ubimus) e visando a inclusão de leigos em atividades criativas, o artigo discute a criatividade m...

In this article, we take Erll’s important categorisation about the three different generations of memory studies scholars as a starting point in order to propose a chronotopical dislocation that envisages Amazonia as the epistemic spatiotemporal centre of our memory studies. In doing so, we account for a pluriverse of social and ethnic conflicts, b...

Starting from February 2020, Italy was the first among the European countries, to experience dramatic rises in daily COVID-19 deaths and contagions. An important aspect that distinguished the first COVID-19 wave (Feb-Jun 2020) from the following waves of infection in Italy was the sheer imbalance, in terms of deaths and contagion, between Northern...

Las prácticas creativas basadas en cognición ecológica conforman una de las líneas consolidadas dentro de la investigación en música ubicua (ubimus). Su fuerte relación con los recursos locales y su perspectiva relacional hacen de este enfoque una herramienta propicia para ampliar las posibilidades creativas del uso de sonidos ambientales. En este...

We explore a new conceptual framework for interaction design in the context of ubiquitous musical activities, banging interaction. Our proposal entails a shift of focus from instruments, tools or device-oriented approaches to a timbre-led design practice that targets the potential relationships between sonic and multimodal qualities and the local a...

As a subcategory of the blockchain technology that underwrites cryptocurrencies, NFTs are prominently targeting the market of multimedia digital art. In this chapter, we revisit the concept of IoMusT within the context of the current attempts to monetize the web contents through the use of NFTs. Recent literature on musicology, cultural studies and...

The Editorial Board of the INSAM Journal of Contemporary Music, Art and Technology decided that both issues of 2022 will be dedicated to one main theme, namely, “Fighting for the attention: Music and art on social media”. We can say that this call for papers went very successfully, as we are now presenting to you INSAM Journal No. 9. In a year whic...

Neste artigo pretendemos mostrar como, na canção “El Arado” (1965), composta pelo músico chileno Víctor Jara (1932-1973), o compositor combina letra, melodia e harmonia para representar o trabalho do trabalhador rural, bem como sua esperança diante das possibilidades de mudança. Como referências, utilizamos a Teoria Decolonial e o Modelo Tripartite...

INTRODUCTION: In this paper we discuss concepts and practices that point to a new field of ubiquitous music (ubimus) research centered on domestic settings.OBJECTIVES: The objective of this paper is to document and share a preliminary study of the use of taste as a trigger for creative decisions and a comparative study of creative music making done...

Neste artigo, fruto da dissertação de mestrado da primeira autora, fazemos uma análise da canção "Vientos del Pueblo", de Víctor Jara em sua relação os poemas "Sentado Sobre los Muertos" e "Vientos del Pueblo me Llevan", do poeta espanhol Miguel Hernandez, sobre o qual Jara se inspirou para sua composição. Estabelecemos uma comparação entre o poema...

The 11th UbiMus — Ubiquitous Music Workshop (https://dei.fe.up.pt/ubimus/) was held at the Center for High Artistic Performance, the house of the Orquestra Jazz Matosinhos (OJM) in Portugal, during September 6–8, 2021. It was organized by the Sound and Music Computing (SMC) Group of the Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto and INESC TEC, Por...

It has been roughly six months since my family and I started our quarantine in João Pessoa, Brazil, and to this day we are still at home trying to avoid physical proximity with people from outside. As Italian immigrants (proudly not “expats”) in Latin America, we experienced two main phases of the Covid-19 global crisis: in March and April, with sh...

Popular Italian culture has grown ever more interested in the interpenetration between organized crime, state activities and transnational economic processes. However, while these narratives productively analyse—and denounce—the macroeconomic processes underscoring illegal and harmful practices, they also often complement such economic analyses by...

Between the end of May and the beginning of June, 2020, we performed individually, filmed, synced together, edited and presented a quarantine version of John Cage’s Cartridge Music. Uploaded on YouTube, the performance was broadcast on 1 June, as part of the 4th Research Colloquium of the Postgraduate Programme in Music of the Federal University of...

The fifth issue of INSAM Journal of Contemporary Music, Art and Technology is the second one we are preparing and publishing in the Covid-19 pandemic. And while the theme for the previous issue was conceived in a world unburdened with what has preoccupied our minds and lives in 2020, the theme for this one is directly shaped by it. During the Sprin...

Ntralllazzu is the title of a cycle of works based on interactive live scores, that reflects on the multifaceted philosophical concepts of liveness and interaction both from a creative point of view and in more critical terms. The work is based on a projected score that interacts in real time with the material played by the performer(s). While one...

Creative semantic anchoring (ACS) is based on the use of verbal indicators in order to facilitate creative processes. Previous research within the g-ubimus, and in particular by the Amazon Center for Music Research, has focussed on the interpretative study of Flausino Valle’s work, based in turn on the compilation of a a set of methodological tools...

Resumo: O artigo trata dos processos envolvidos na composição, preparação para a performance e a performance em si de S'arricugghieru, obra para violino e violão escrita em 2016 por Marcello Messina. Ao longo da negociação colaborativa da performance, a escrita originária da partitura perde a sua pressão normativa sobre as ações dos executores. Ass...

Resumo > Conjugar a teoria decolonial com práticas musicais no campo do que é geralmente significado como "música contemporânea" ou "experimental" não é tarefa fácil. Na introdução ao artigo, apresentamos o problema da ação ambivalente do significante "modernidade", ou seja, um sinônimo de libertação para estéticas musicais envolvidas na experiment...

This paper explores the emerging initiatives in ubiquitous music research that employ anticipatory systems. We provide a short introduction to the ubimus field, highlighting the differences with other technologically based approaches to music making. One of the objectives of ubimus research is to expand the range of the stakeholders that participate...

This paper outlines and documents a new metaphor for creativity support, creative semantic anchoring(ASC). Creative semantic anchoring involves the verbal grounding of sonic materials to achieve collective aesthetic decisions or to facilitate the transfer of musical knowledge. The strategy is especially useful for sonic classes linked to the daily...

This book explores how women’s relationship with food has been represented in Italian literature, cinema, scientific writings and other forms of cultural expression from the 19th century to the present. Italian women have often been portrayed cooking and serving meals to others, while denying themselves the pleasure of the table. The collection pre...

Originally composed by Marcello Messina, Ntrallazzuisa cycle of pieces for lives core and electronics built on Max, and involving various instrumental line-ups. In particular, Ntrallazzu4 was performed by Luzilei Aliel on the pífano and electric guitar in São João del Rei during the VIII UbiMus workshop. Aliel’s particular setup also involve da fur...

In July 2017, as delegates of the Universidade Federal do Acre we were invited to talk at the I Seminario Internacional de Educación Rural in Peru, in the cities of Lircay and Lima. In this article, we focus specifically on the debate that took place in Lima, in order to identify epiphanic passages that expose crucial conceptions of "rural" and "bi...

Carlo Verdone"s 1981 film Bianco, Rosso e Verdone is counted among Italy"s most loved comedy classics. The film contains the story of Pasquale Ametrano, a Southern Italian immigrant based in Munich who travels across Italy in order to vote in his hometown Matera. In this article we interrogate the figure of Pasquale in order to unveil the ways in w...

No dia 22 de setembro de 2016, o fotógrafo Sebastião Salgado recebeu na Universidade Federal do Acre (UFAC), o título de doutor honoris causa, e ministrou uma palestra, com o título “Sebastião Salgado – Uma História de Vida”. Neste trabalho, pretendemos discutir de forma crítica o papel de Salgado. Inicialmente, analisaremos o ritual performático d...

A canção de protesto fez parte do cenário cultural na América "Latina" durante a década de 60/70 em diferentes países da região. Em muitas dessas canções havia propostas de união dos povos latino-americanos contra as explorações de classes, estadunidense ou em prol da construção do socialismo. Este artigo tem como objetivo analisar como a ideia des...

Lançada em junho de 2016 por Dennis DJ com MC Nandinho e MC Nego Bam, a canção “Malandramente” disparou uma série de reações acaloradas, devido principalmente à sua letra abertamente machista. Neste trabalho, a partir destas últimas considerações e de outras observações, pretendemos complicar a interpretação de “Malandramente” como canção machista...

Redigimos este texto em Rio Branco, de onde, atravessando diversas pontes internacionais sobre o Rio Acre, acessamos facilmente os departamentos amazônicos do Pando (Bolívia) e de Madre de Dios (Peru). Do outro lado, temos acesso via estrada ao estado brasileiro de Rondônia, onde até hoje (junho de 2018) é preciso passar por uma balsa pelo Rio Made...

Neste trabalho queremos discutir de forma crítica as narrativas nacionais sustentadas historicamente a partir da ideia de “conflitos revolucionários” que ocorreram nos primeiros anos do século XX ao longo da fronteira amazônica entre Brasil e Bolívia. A proposta é de explorar como governos oficiais nos dois países, nos dois lados da fronteira, mais...

The short film Làssami (“leave me”) was directed by Gianluca Sodaro in 2015, and functions as a music video to the eponymous song by Giuseppe Di Bella, who also acts in the film. In this article, I attempt to decipher Làssami’s encounter of lyrics, music, sound effects and images. In the first part of the article, I discuss the reproduction of ster...

In this work, we focus on the travel memoir Mezza Italiana (2011), written by Italian-Australian author Zoë Boccabella. Partly of Abruzzese and partly of Calabrian origins, she spends most of her trips to Italyin Abruzzo, only to stay very shortly in the Calabrian town of Palmi. Boccabella’s narration of Calabria offers contestable representations...

p>The purpose of this article is the comparative study of monuments in Cobija (Bolivia) and Rio Branco (Brazil), unearthing the contentious national narratives that each of these two Amazonian border cities sustains as a result of the historical dispute over control of the region that today composes the southern part of the Brazilian state of Acre....

One of the US-owned Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) installations was projected and built in Sicily, near Niscemi. Since 2012, NO MUOS activists have excogitated various forms of protest that are reminiscent of artistic performances and identitarian rituals. Additionally, a number of creators/performers across different art forms have supported...

Neste trabalho pretendemos abordar de forma crítica as representações da ascensão social em dois recentes filmes brasileiros, a dizer, Que Horas Ela Volta? (MUYLAERT, 2015) e Aquarius (MENDONÇA FILHO, 2016). Ambos os filmes abordam questões sociais de grande relevância no Brasil contemporâneo, isto é, a condição econômico-social das empregadas dome...

At Balance-Unbalance 2016 in Manizales, the authors presented a cycle of four musical pieces for solo violin, Comu arvulu scippatu. This commentary illustrates the theoretical premises and the technical circumstances of their work, highlighting the noncoercive, horizontal quality of their collaboration and the historico-critical background of the c...

The piece I saw them colours of your flag, for solo voice with effects, was written for Lauren Redhead on 26 February 2016, and released a few days later as part of Redhead’s album solo speaking (2016).

In obiezione alla definizione di «tesi ‘anti-italiana’» proposta da Ernesto Galli Della Loggia, in questo lavoro propongo la categoria di «post-italiano» per descrivere la necessità meridionale di ripensare l’orizzonte nazionale italiano alla luce del divario Nord-Sud che caratterizza il paese. Mi concentrerò su episodi di insubordinazione al monol...

Vedere o rivedere il film a episodi Bianco, Rosso e Verdone, scritto, diretto e interpretato da Carlo Verdone nel 1981, 1 dopo intere esistenze, o quasi, vissute fuori dall'Italia, comporta confrontarsi brutalmente con l'episodio di Pasquale Ametrano, l'emigrante che torna dalla Germania per votare e percorre l'Italia da Nord a Sud verso Matera, su...

On 22 April 2017, while rehearsing a musical performance for talent show " Amici di Maria De Filippi " , female singer Emma Marrone was repeatedly molested and groped by a male dancer as part of a prank orchestrated by the TV team. During the broadcast, cast members and guest stars laughed at Marrone " s irritated reactions to the " simulated " sex...

Rosario Dello Iacovo. 2014. Curre Curre Guagliò: Storie dei 99 Posse. Milan: Baldini & Castoldi. 304pp. ISBN 978-88-6852-666-5 (pbk)

Questo lavoro è uno studio preliminare a una critica più organica e strutturata della demonizzazione delle identità meridionali nei film Qualunquemente e Belluscone. In particolare, qui mi occupo della rivisitazione della canzone Onda Calabra del gruppo Il Parto delle Nuvole Pesanti nel film Qualunquemente. Inizialmente, descrivo il contesto origin...

Nzikitanza for accordion, violin, cello and tape was written in 2012 as a reflection on the deployment of Sicilian territory for NATO and US military operations. In particular, the piece was inspired by the then newly formed resistance committee against the MUOS in Niscemi. This brief commentary will illustrate a priori and a posteriori reflections...

This article consists of an interview with composer Caroline Lucas. Throughout the interview, we discuss identity politics and radical artistic practices with reference toLucas's recent compositions. Towards the end of the article, we problematise the implicit elitism and the social exclusion embedded in the practice of avant-gardeacademic music.

In this work I attempt to formulate a series of hypotheses on the cialomi (the songs that accompany the traditional Sicilian tuna fishing known as mattanza), in light of Bakhtinian philosophy. During the mattanza the fishermen (tunnaroti) perform an initial antiphonal song, based on verses sung by the lead singer (cialumaturi) alternated with a cho...

Taking as a starting point John Champagne’s recent argument about the queer representations of Italian masculinity contained in Garrone’s Gomorra, this paper aims to connect the queer masculinity of the film’s characters with the negative judgement on their lives and actions suggested by the film. In particular, it will be argued that queerness is...

This paper will present the use of parody in my piece I mballakkeri as deriving from Bakhtin’s writings on the carnivalesque, related in turn to Dostoevsky’s and Rabelais’s works. The core of Bakhtin’s insights on carnival as a social institution and on its function as a guarantor of social order will be briefly presented in the introductive sectio...