26-28/09/2023, ore 15, Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Aula Pirrotta
Tuesday 26 September at 15.00
intervention by Marica Coppola, Daniele Peraro, Emina Smailbegovic
Speeches and imagery of new wave music between Yugoslavia and Italy in the eighties
At the end of the seventies of the twentieth century, starting from England a new musical trend recognized by the term new wave developed from the ashes of the punk subculture,
distinguishing itself from the latter for a new spirit of experimentation and research. At the same time, the social, political and economic context of the Eighties was subject to the significant changes of previous international balances, which took shape in the symbolic fall of the Berlin Wall. In this scenario, the new wave became a means of expression of collective imaginaries that changed based on the places where it spread. The intervention aims to examine some musical realities taken from this context and emerged simultaneously in Yugoslavia and Italy.
While in the republics of Yugoslavia (Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Macedonia) the new wave has had different political repercussions, the scenario of some Italian cities (Bologna, Florence) was influenced by what historians have defined as not without some critical "Reflux". The objective of our intervention is to find relationships both between provincial contexts that national, not neglecting the imaginaries that the new wave genre has made to emerge in Europe.
Wednesday 27 September at 15.00
discussion by Sara Antonini, Giuseppe Migliore, Alessandro Susca, Emanuele Tumminello
Musicological and ethnomusicological research in contemporaneity. The web between advantages and criticality
In the course of this talk we will address some issues related to the interaction between
musicological and ethnomusicological field and the web. In particular, we intend to analyze some contemporary research trends focusing on the use of the web as a tool and sometimes
subject of investigation. Starting from an overview of the most common methodologies of web research, some topics will be deepened through the discussion of standard cases, problems and sometimes unresolved. The aim is to stimulate a debate - hopefully fruitful - on issues related to the retrieval of bibliographic or site sources, the use of social networks, digital ethnography and tools to support research/ teaching. Specifically, we will analyze:
the interaction between serendipity and web research methodologies, with reference to the potential uncertainty of some information from the web and highlighting the need for greater
systematic use of digital resources; the regulatory framework governing collection, use and
the dissemination of audiovisual materials depicting informants and performers, with hints at some experience in the field; the Italian legislation that regulates the documentation and dissemination of goods cultural property, comparing regulatory frameworks and practices at the level of international; the problems and possible opportunities it presents, for the field researcher, the interference of the web within living musical traditions.
Thursday 28 September at 15.00
intervention by Roberto Ribuoli
Artificial intelligence: new resources and challenges for musicology
In recent years artificial intelligence has increasingly changed not only research practices
but also the daily, stimulating a discussion about it more and more heated, with
mystified traits about its powers and dangers in the near future. In this context, AI solutions for music creation and analysis (assisted composition, audio>midi conversion, production of
audio tracks from verbal indications) have not had the amazing developments of the world
video and photographic, suggesting a greater complexity of the musical phenomenon, whose
description is configured as a musicological challenge and not only technical. The intervention aims to present AI solutions available today for music research in reference to the type of technology used (Neural Networks, Transformers, Large Language Models) and their use scenarios, opening a debate on the subject.
Thursday 28 September at 16.00
Practical workshop by Sara Mansutti
Transkribus for document research and analysis
Transkribus is a platform based on Artificial Intelligence for recognition, transcription
and searching for historical documents. The software is able to analyze a wide variety of paginations
and automatically transcribe handwritten and printed texts, allowing the user to train
custom templates for specific cases. The workshop includes a brief introduction to
operation of the Handwritten Text Recognition, its use cases and its involvement
in the examination of documents that cannot be analyzed directly by the individual scholar. The platform will
presented through concrete scenarios of use, from the transcription of corpora extended to the research of
annotations in databases, from collation of large-scale variants to support in the realization of
digital editions, providing participants with the tools to use the system for the benefit of
own research.