Following the nice experiences of hybrid and remote events held in Porto Seguro, Bahia, Brazil in 2020 and Porto, Portugal, in 2021, this year our community decided to fully embrace the remote modality. The event was hosted by our partners at the State University of Paraná (Unespar), located in Curitiba, Brazil, under the able coordination of…[Read more]

Las prácticas creativas basadas en cognición ecológica conforman una de las líneas consolidadas dentro de la investigación en música ubicua (ubimus). Su fuerte relación con los recursos locales y su perspectiva relacional hacen de este enfoque una herramienta propicia para ampliar las posibilidades creativas del uso de sonidos ambientales. En est…[Read more]

As a subcategory of the blockchain technology that underwrites cryptocurrencies, NFTs are prominently targeting the market of multimedia digital art. In this chapter, we revisit the concept of IoMusT within the context of the current attempts to monetize the web contents through the use of NFTs. Recent literature on musicology, cultural studies…[Read more]

Filmic representations of Sicily and Sicilians often cast them as peripheral supplements within the general action. In the case studies I examine in this chapter, entirely based on films set in the minor islands of the Sicilian archipelago, this peripherality corresponds customarily to exoticised, racio-gendered Otherness. In this context, these…[Read more]

Neste trabalho, recorro à análise crítica do discurso para avaliar a justaposição entre a categoria obscura de “democracia liberal” e os epítetos usados para descrever líderes de governo em países não ocidentais em ascensão, avaliando também o papel das caracterizações regionais e étnico-raciais na a formulação desses epítetos. Minha ate…[Read more]

Part of the recent developments in Ubiquitous Music (ubimus) research involve the proposal of the Internet of Musical Stuff (IoMuSt) as an expansion and complement to the Internet of Musical Things (IoMusT). The transition from IoMusT to IoMuSt entails a critique of blockchain and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) as technologies for allotment,…[Read more]

Unpacking the charged cliché of the ‘greedy southern woman’ involves analytical confrontation with some of the many axes of exclusion that characterize Italy, intended as a patriarchal, northern-centric and body-normative society. Furthermore, it involves a critical grasp of the violent modes of visualization that coordinate the exposure of bodi…[Read more]

Twelve years, twelve events. Despite the well-established tradition of our community to get together, share results and challenge partners with unexpected new threads, this year opens a new stage. After much discussion, the Ubiquitous Music Group decided to take up Teresa Connor’s proposal and coined a new name for our event, The Ubiquitous M…[Read more]

We introduce IoMuSt-the Internet of Musical Stuff: a proposal to recalibrate the Internet of Musical Things in the light of the current reification of digital creative resources, epitomised by the Non-Fungible Tokens frenzy. As opposed to marketable “things”, “stuff” is fluid, malleable, unfixable and pecuniarily irrelevant. Hence, stuff is good…[Read more]

The 11th UbiMus — Ubiquitous Music Workshop (https://dei.fe.up.pt/ubimus/) was held at the Center for High Artistic Performance, the house of the Orquestra Jazz Matosinhos (OJM) in Portugal, during September 6–8, 2021. It was organized by the Sound and Music Computing (SMC) Group of the Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto and INESC TEC…[Read more]

Marcello Messina, Stefania Capogreco. “Armato di carnagione”: Chromatic Regimes of Racial Profiling in the Italian Press. Francielle Maria Modesto Mendes; Francisco Aquinei Timóteo Queirós; Wagner da Costa Silva. Pesquisa em comunicação: jornalismo, raça e gênero, Nepan Editora, 2021, 978-65-89135-20-3.

Between the end of May and the beginning of June, 2020, we performed individually, filmed, synced together, edited and presented a quarantine version of John Cage’s Cartridge Music. Uploaded on YouTube, the performance was broadcast on 1 June, as part of the 4th Research Colloquium of the Postgraduate Programme in Music of the Federal University o…[Read more]

Picture a world with no mobility. Planes are landed. Urban transportation stopped. Large gatherings are non-existent and everybody is at home. That’s 2020, today. Most countries have reduced social interactions to a minimum. Food markets, drugstores and gas stations remain open. But shopping malls, cinemas, coffee shops and pubs have closed t…[Read more]