Mar. 24, 2020: Participatory Lithology Interview for Caterpillar (RAI Radio 2)

Caterpillar on RAI Radio 2 is one of the longest-running and most followed radio shows in Italy. We were honored to have our first public presentation of the project we started on March 21 with an interview by their crew. The audio is, of course, in Italian:

For more information in English on Participatory Lithology: see http://www.pibinko.org/litologiapartecipativa/, write to micalosapevo@pibinko.org or send a message to +39 3317539228 (SMS o whatsapp).

Kudos to Gabriele Sanna for the live recording. The whole show is available as a podcast from the Caterpillar web site.

Participatory Lithology

Welcome! This is the entry point for the “little participatory lithology exercise” launched on March 21, 2020 from Tatti (Southern Tuscany) by pibinko.org with the Jug Band Colline Metallifere (Metalliferous Hills Jug Band), networked with other folks around Italy and abroad. To make your way into the project, there are various avenues. You may choose from:

Cristian Carlone

Born in Torino (Turin), Italy in the year 1964. Geologist, fiction books translator, cooperating with Turin’s MUFANT Museum, rock music lover (but unable to play any instrument) and in particular of Blue Oyster Cult, cinema fan, avid reader and total Star Wars and Gundam nerd.

Jack O’Malley

This is Andrea Giacomelli’s nickname for musical stuff.

Jack is one of the creators of the Metalliferous Hills Jug Band (i.e. Jug Band dalle Colline Metallifere project. This is an inter-generational and international collective based in Southern Tuscany, started in March 2017, as a development of multiple years of activity in outreach and community engagement initiatives. It is active in the production of events where live music and outreach on land an environmental issues are mixed in an educated way to provide a pleasant, entertaining, and instructive experience.

Since 2000 he has been dealing in a decreasingly casual way with music and rhymes, intertwined with his other activities.