{"id":170,"date":"2019-03-30T05:01:15","date_gmt":"2019-03-30T04:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pibinko.org\/jugbandcollinemetallifere\/?page_id=170"},"modified":"2022-05-27T12:59:16","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T10:59:16","slug":"geomusic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pibinko.org\/jugbandcollinemetallifere\/geomusic\/","title":{"rendered":"Geomusic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><em>This is a transcript of a March 5, 2019, radio interview<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hi this is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pibinko.org\/about-me\">Jack O\u2019Malley<\/a>, drummer and scientific director for the  Metalliferous Hills Jug Band.   What we are developing as a project is  something we called \u201cgeomusic\u201d, and I would like to explain to you what  this is about, in two or three points.<br> I am an engineer, a PhD, a  sort of a scientist. In 25 years I have been to some 1000 conferences  and scientific events. At the same time, I like music a lot, so in 25  -let\u2019s make it 40- years, I have been to 1000 concerts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Out of these conferences, at least half are about the environment,  about doing good for the Earth, remediating, cleaning the air. On the  other hand, when you go to concerts, there is a fair share of songs by  artists who are concerned about the environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now: when you go to scientific conferences, at the end of the day you\n get the icebreaker cocktail, or the dinner, with a jazz quartet in the \nbackground. Then, when you go to a concert, the artist will sing a song \nwhich will give you some feeling about an environmental issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Going back to the scientific conference, you will find many \nscientists complaining about the fact that, after their strong \ncommitment in a research, they have issues in conveying  their findings \nto improve the environment. On the other side, artists, who may excel in\n arts, have a hard time to get through to their audience actual concepts\n and action items to take home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Geomusic, in its own way, intends to act as liaison between these two positions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, we are working on producing music embedding actual explanations  in environmental engineering topics and scientific outreach, in a way  that people will be entertained, while learning things that they can  apply at home. This story started at the end of 2016, after about a year that I was  interacting with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pibinko.org\/etruschi-from-lakota-2\/\">Etruschi from Lakota<\/a> (EFL). At the time they were touring  with their second album \u201cNon ci resta che ridere\u201d, which has a lot of  songs about territorial issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I also joined forces with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pibinko.org\/wolfgang-scheibe-2\/\">mad German bass player<\/a>, 70 years old back  then, who relocated in Tatti, which is the hamlet in Southern Tuscany where I am also based  (and which was my grandfather\u2019s place).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Having formed this team, we started partly to study, and mostly to  experiment, with jam sessions and inviting each other, like myself  inviting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pibinko.org\/dario-canal-2\/\">Dario Canal<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pibinko.org\/simone-sandrucci-2\/\">Simone Sandrucci<\/a> from EFL to give <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"scientific  presentations at national conferences (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pibinko.org\/geomatics-and-music-at-foss4g-it-in-genova-italy\/\" target=\"_blank\">scientific  presentations at national conferences<\/a>, or EFL inviting me to play on  stage, and there we set off with geomusic.<br> Clearly, geomusic is not  developed in the void, in space or in academia, but is \u201con the road\u201d a  lot, and comes by listening to a lot of other music&#8230;..(you can follow the rest of the interview on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pibinko.org\/march-5-2019-jack-omalley-speaks-about-geomusic-for-in-aria-radio-rogna\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"pibinko.org (opens in a new tab)\">pibinko.org<\/a>)<br> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a transcript of a March 5, 2019, radio interview Hi this is Jack O\u2019Malley, drummer and scientific director for the Metalliferous Hills Jug Band. What we are developing as a project is something we called \u201cgeomusic\u201d, and I would like to explain to you what this is about, in two or three points. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pibinko.org\/jugbandcollinemetallifere\/geomusic\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continua la lettura di <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Geomusic<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-more-on"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/saPJqJ-geomusic","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pibinko.org\/jugbandcollinemetallifere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pibinko.org\/jugbandcollinemetallifere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pibinko.org\/jugbandcollinemetallifere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pibinko.org\/jugbandcollinemetallifere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pibinko.org\/jugbandcollinemetallifere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.pibinko.org\/jugbandcollinemetallifere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5406,"href":"https:\/\/www.pibinko.org\/jugbandcollinemetallifere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions\/5406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pibinko.org\/jugbandcollinemetallifere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pibinko.org\/jugbandcollinemetallifere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pibinko.org\/jugbandcollinemetallifere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}