A v0.9 German version of the Metalliferous Hills Jug Band presentation is downloadable from this link.
Kudos to Wolfgang Scheibe (right in the photo above) for the translation.
For more information about the MHJB, please see the main page for the project, or write to jugbandcm@pibinko.org
This title was reported by Alessandro S. from Padova, in response to an invitation I sent to several Italian mailing lists to meet in Milano for a geomusical jam session for the Metalliferous Hills Jub Band on Jan. 30.
this was eventually held with Lucio Monocrom, Willy e Colangelo.
A two-page summary presenting the 2018 pibinko.org network activities is available (download PDF).
The same document provides a brief presentation of the network, and of how this developed starting from 2006, in the combination of urban sprawls, rural areas, ancient games, post-modern technologies, tattoos, covers of 1911 blues songs, sandwiches with marinate anchovies, beatboxing, boxing, and…
…know-how and expertise which apparently has a certain level of inspiration, as demonstrated by various testimonials and the media coverage concerning our stories.
It will help to complement the report with
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by Luciano Massetti – CNR IBIMET Firenze (l.massetti@ibimet.cnr.it)
DARKNESS was the topic discussed during the full arctic night in Longyearbyen, the northernmost city of the world (latitude ~ 78° N), in the Svalbard Islands, North of Norway.
The conference had over 90 experts from 22 countries, dealing with the topic of darkness from multiple angles.
Luciano Massetti presented the joint activities conducted by CNR IBIMET in collaboration with the Department of Biology from the University of Pisa and the BuioMetria Partecipativa project.
These things can happen on a Saturday morning in a 300-resident hamlet cafe, apparently casually..
Please also see the page on the “Communities of Torniella, Piloni, and Scalvaia” under the pibinko.org “Collaborations”, giving some context to this episode.
Please note: the photo used is not of the Metalliferous Hills Jug Band, but of Etruschi from Lakota (where in fact two of the JBCM members are active). For a nice shot of the JBCM please check out this flyer.Thanks to Marusca Tridenti for providing a copy of the cover and of the article.
Original article by Ilenia Pistolesi (see source). Translation by Andrea Giacomelli. Please also see the pibinko.org blog post with the full presentation which inspired the article, or write to jugbandcm@pibinko.org for more information.
Cecina Valley (Pisa), Jan. 23, 2019. Environment, land, and rural development. These are crucial topics, normally discussed in round tables by political think tanks, or as food for thought in conferences. Issues which make mayors suffer and environmental activists struggle. However, this time, we have music to blend high-level matters, with a thread of notes and melodies coming right from the heart of the Cecina Valley.
We are talking about the “Metalliferous Hills Jug Band”. This is a collective born in March 2017 and named in September 2018, with its base of operationi in the land of the Tuscan geysers.
The band originated from the collaboration of two young rock blues musicians, with three albums on their resume, an independent researcher with 25 years of international experience, musically active since 1986, and a German who relocated to Southern Tuscany.
On stage, the power of musical instruments alternates with talks and insights on the environment, thus joining in a single event live sounds and vocals to outreach and awareness raising on such paramount topics.
In a nutshell, they called this “Geomusic”: a brand new combination, an approach based on innovation, where two of the co-authors are original Cecina Valley musicians, i.e. Dario Canal and Simone Sandrucci.
This is a far from obvious approach to circulate ideas on “green” best practices.
In addition to the standard musical equipment by Etruschi from Lakota (Canal and Sandrucci’s main band), the collective brings on stage vintage instruments, found in their family attics, and actual scientific measurement instrumentation, such as a sky quality meter for light pollution monitoring, a lux meter, and various construction meters, occasionally used in the percussion section.
The collective, which has already performend on various stages, has also been presented to multiple research institutions, including the Italian National Research Council, the Politecnico di Milano and other Italian and foreign universities, raising a genuine interest for the rare and original combination of of art and the capacity of shedding a light on the environment from a very peculiar and unusual viewpoint.
A few days ago I published a detailed presentation of the Metalliferous Hills Jug Band project. This is a six-page PDF document which may be downloaded form the following link:
We will then prepare an abridged version of the same text, as suggested by some reviewers. In any case, reading six pages (including a large-format photo, a summary and various headers) never hurt anybody, at least according to WHO reports.
Thanks to those who provided comments to the draft (Fabio B, Marino M, Andrea d F, Elio A, Daniele S, Vittorio G).
For more information on the project you may also write to jugbandcm@pibinko.org.
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