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(November 2022 update)
Peer-reviewed Monographs
§ Le ceneri del prog: Quel che resta di un genere della popular music, Milano/Lucca: Ricordi/LIM, 2021.
Peer-reviewed Articles
§ "Specchi di carne e cesellatura musicale: Limiti della creatività computazionale tra corpo e coscienza". Studies in Philosophy of Literature, Aesthetics, and New Media Theories, 8/1 (2022), pp. 141-177. Co-author: Stefano Maria Nicoletti.
§ "A Mellotron-Shaped Grave: Deconstructing the Death of Progressive Rock". Transposition: Musique et Sciences Sociales, 10 (2021).
§ “The Second Death of Concept Albums: World-Building and Unification Strategies in the Age of Streaming”. Interdisciplinary Studies in Musicology, 21 (2021), pp. 57-73.
§ “A Critical (and Interdisciplinary) Survey of Popular Music Genre Theories”. Interdisciplinary Studies in Musicology, 20 (2020), pp. 79-94.
§ "Of Flesh and Steel: Computational Creativity in Music and the Body Issue". INSAM: Journal of Contemporary Music, Art and Technology, 4 (2020), pp. 24-42. Co-author: Stefano Maria Nicoletti.
§ "Inhuman, All Too Inhuman: Intrinsic Limits of Computational Creativity in Music". Riffs: Experimental Writing on Popular Music, 4/1 (2020), pp. 28-46. Co-author: Stefano Maria Nicoletti.
Conference Papers
§ "More 1980s than the 1980s: Functions and Connotations of Synthwave Soundtracks". Musical Retrofuturism in the 21st Century, Symposium (Online, 18-19/08/2022).
§ "Is This Prog? Defining progressive as a creative attitude". The 4th Biennial International Conference of the Progect Network for the Study of Progressive Rock – Progressive Rock & Metal: Towards a Contemporary Understanding, University of Ottawa (Online, 19-21 & 26-28/05/2021).
§ "Eclectic Tennō: Japanese Video Game Soundtracks as Agents of Postmodernity". Ludo2021: 20th European Conference on Video Game Music and Sound, SSSMG (Online, 23-25/04/2021).
§ "A Digital Touch: The 'Body Issue' in Computational Creativity". Body and Corporeality in 20th and 21st Century Music, University of Music and Performing Arts Graz (Online, 05-06/11/2020). Joint paper delivered with Stefano Maria Nicoletti.
§ "How to Create a ‘Second of Structured Chaos’: Meshuggah’s Catch 33 and the Representation of Paradox". 18th Annual Society for Musicology in Ireland Plenary Conference, University College Dublin School of Music (Online, 29-31/10/2020).
§ "Lost in the Stream: Concept Album in the Age of Streaming". IASPM Norden Conference 2020 – Music in the Age of Streaming: Nordic Perspectives, Luleå University of Technology, (Online, 15-17/06/2020).
§ "Fertilising Deaths: Deconstructing Prog’s Death to Understand Post-Prog". 15th IASPM UK and Ireland Biennial Conference – London Calling, London College of Music (Online, 05-06/2020).
§ "Eclectic Tennō: Japanese Music for New Media as Agent of Postmodernity". The 24th Annual Symposium of Music Scholars in Finland – Technology and Change in Music Cultures, University of Turku & Åbo Academi (Turku FI, 18-20/03/2020 – event cancelled due to Covid-19 outbreak).
§ "Dr. Prog and Mr. Post: Or, A (Draft) Theory of (Postmodern) Music Genres". ICTM/SMI Postgraduate Conference 2020, University of Limerick (Limerick IE, 17-18/01/2020).
§ "Progressive and Regressive Rock: Redefining Prog in Postmodern Times". BFE/RMA Research Students' Conference 2020, The Open University (Milton Keynes UK, 09-11/01/2020).
Book chapters
§ "A Digital Touch: The 'Body Issue' in Computational Creativity". In Körper(-lichkeit) in der Musik des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts (title TBC), ed. by N. Scharfetter and T. Wozonig, Bielefield: Transcript (forthcoming). Co-author: Stefano Maria Nicoletti.
Invited talks
§ “C.P.U. Bach: Potenzialità e limiti della creatività computazionale musicale”. Aesthetics of The New Media (tenure: prof. Alice Barale), MA Course: University of Milan (2h, 28/11/2022).
§ “Vaporwave and Synthwave: Nostalgic Siblings from the Digital Age”. Music and Digital Humanities (tenure: prof. Carlo Lanfossi), MA Course: University of Milan (1h, 21/11/2022).
§ “Eredi del prog: Peter Gabriel e Robert Fripp”. History of Popular and Jazz Music (tenure: prof. Luca Cerchiari), BA Course: IULM University (2h, 24/10/2022).
§ “Il revival tra maniera e manierismo: Il caso emblematico del progressive”. Storia delle teorie musicali (tenure: prof. Davide Daolmi), MA Course: University of Milan (2h, 05/05/2021).
Translations (ITA to ENG)
§ Alvin Lucier, Bird and Person Dyning (CD/LP, Liner Notes), Cramps Records, 2021 reissue.
§ Horacio Vaggione, La maquina de cantar (CD/LP, Liner Notes), Cramps Records, 2021 reissue.
§ Martin Davorin Jagodic, Tempo Furioso (CD/LP, Liner Notes), Cramps Records, 2021 reissue.
§ David Tudor, Microphone (CD/LP, Liner Notes), Cramps Records, 2021 reissue.
§ Costin Miereanu, Luna Cinese (CD/LP, Liner Notes), Cramps Records, 2021 reissue.
§ Ennio Morricone & Bruno Nicolai, Dimensioni sonore (10LP/10CD + Book), Dialogo, 2020. Translated section: "Conversation with Giorgio Carnini".