About
Valentina

Last edited 3 Apr 2022

I am a musicologist who is currently working on a project titled “ARPOEXMUS – Archiving post-1960s experimental music: Exploring the ontology of music beyond the score-performance dichotomy” funded by the European Commission.

My work is affiliated with the University of Birmingham in UK and Carleton University, in Ottawa, Canada. ARPOEXMUS addresses the theoretical, ontological, methodological and ethical issues that arise from archiving the heterogeneous instruments, objects, electronic devices, software, and custom-built materials that have been at the heart of sonic arts for the past 60 years.

Currently my musicological practice is transforming, guided by the desire to explore in which ways musicology can become a practice-based discipline. In particular I am focusing on musical archival formations and their strong canonizing forces; and on what interventions musicologists can create to see archives as long-term investments ensuring a diversity of resources necessary to redress the imbalances in traditional music discourse.

Other things I am interested about are collective improvisation in the 1960s and 1970s; cultural diplomacy; electronic music; performance practices;… but if you want to know more why don’t we chat? Contact me!

Created by Ellen Waterman, the Research Centre for Music, Sound and Society in Canada (MSSC) supports a wide variety of research initiatives exploring the connections among music, sound, and society in Canada.

Study group within the Italian Musicological Society dedicated to research on electronic music.

Affiliations

Affiliations

Created by Ellen Waterman, the MSSC supports a wide variety of research initiatives exploring the connections among music, sound, and society in Canada.
Study group within the Italian Musicological Society dedicated to research on electronic music. More about RISME

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