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ASBUC Tatti meets Social Sciences and Humanities

Compositions

A few days ago ASBUC (Amministrazione Separata Beni e Usi Civici) in Tatti (Southern Tuscany) had a visit by Riccardo Franchini, a PhD student in “Social Sciences and Humanities” at the University of Siena.

The event was an opportunity for ASBUC to present both historical aspects and current developments in the small community in the Massa Marittima area, and to share more food for thought that Riccardo may elaborate during his research. The common intent is to remain in contact during the upcoming phases of Riccardo’s work and to assess options for more exchanges and collaborations.

In the header picture: Sergio Cappelletti, Auro Luti and Adriano Fronzaroli with Riccardo Franchini. Below, some of the maps in the ASBUC premises.

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Livin’ Milano, “Pennsylvania Drums” edit

Videos,

[NOTE: this video has Italian subtitles. To turn them on, click on the “CC” icon you will see when you move the mouse over the video once it is playing]

During our Easter rehearsals, while SImone and his slide guitar were tossing and turning over a huge family lunch in Montecastelli Pisano, we had the visit of a delegation from Maryland and Pennsylvania (“friends of a friend” from Torniella), in addition to some your folks from Tatti.

In the American team, it turned out that Blaise is an ex drummer (now into congas). Replacing the drum brushes with two actual painting brushes from Wolfgang’s toolkit as drum sticks, we had the first video version of Livin’ Milano. This requires some adjustments, but is good enough for a casual Easter afternoon at home, and is cool for the audience feedback, 41 days from the departure for the Politecnico di Milano + Germania mission.

The song was written by Jack O’Malley around 1991. At the time he was studying air pollution monitoring in Politecnico, and one of the considerations he heard was that, by using the then new car retrofit technologies there was the possibility of having the same level of air pollution with a larger number of cars circulating. The lyrics were recently edited to reflect new thigs happening.