An article titled The First Cut is the Deepest has been accepted for publication by the prestigious Psychology of Music. The article discusses LoMus and its investigation of musical identities. The paper presents the results of two workshop series that took place in Glasgow and in Cosenza: Sounds Like Music and LoMus Lab. The data…

A new version of This is Our Thing was composed by Raymond MacDonald and Christian Ferlaino in co-creation with Rick Bamford, Elena Inei, David Robertson, Graeme Wilson, Gerry Rossi, Una MacGlone, Atzi Muramatsu, Jessica Argo. The piece is titled This is Our Thing (V2) and is written for any instrument and sound-producing object. This piece…

Here is a video report of LoMus Lab, the workshop series I run at Università della Calabria as a research activity. In the workshops, the participants have experimented with sounding objects and contemporary music and made music with a participatory approach

Here is a video of This is Our Thing performed with hunting calls made with cane and rubber membranes. This is Our Thing is a piece written by Christian Ferlaino and Raymond MacDonald in co-creation with Cassandra Gulotta, Carlotta Costabile, Rossella Manieri, Simonetta Santoro, Anna Catanzaro and Benedetta Pagliaro as an output of LoMus. The…

Here is a video of the event “Sinfonia per Zampogne & Campanacci,” part of the series “La Calabria è un Destino, Restare, Tornare, Approdare” curated by Francesco Bevilacqua at Mulino delle Fate in Nicastro.

On August 7, LoMus will be a guest at Mulino delle Fate in Nicastro with the event “Sinfonia per Zampogne & Campanacci,” part of the series “La Calabria è un Destino, Restare, Tornare, Approdare” curated by Francesco Bevilacqua. We will discuss LoMus, introduce my work All’Erva Radicchia and perform the piece with audience members.

Raymond MacDonald and Christian Ferlaino worked on a composition in co-creation with the participants in LoMus Lab Simonetta Santoro, Benedetta Pagliaro, Rossella Manieri, Cassandra Gulotta, Carlotta Costabile and Anna Catanzaro. The piece is titled This is Our Thing and is written for any instrument and sound-producing object. This piece was written with and for the…

Carnival is celebrated everywhere in Calabria. The celebrations take various forms: masquerades, parades (recently also including floats), dances and enactments, including farces and funerals. The sonic component is central in these celebrations, whether it is traditional music played live, pop music played through loudspeakers, sounds produced with objects and other devices or shouts. In Alessandria del Carretto, the…

On Thursday 23 November 2023, I will be a guest of the Music Research Seminar Series at the University of Edinburgh. I will present LoMus and discuss partial findings of the research. I will briefly describe the research and its aims and introduce my take on musicality and the musicality of sounding objects that has…

On the 27th of October, I played a duo concert with Raymond MacDonald at Sharmanka in Glasgow. Besides our saxophones, Raymond and I used a series of objects, including Calabrian sounding objects, in our performance. Raymond played a newly crafted instrument he recently designed in collaboration with an artificial intelligence entity in Geneva, as well…