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
Publications
Sallis, F., V. Bertolani, I. Burleigh and L. Zattra eds. 2018. Live-electronic Music: Composition, Performance, Study. London: Routledge.
… and I have more chapters coming out in the world. One is on Mario Bertoncini and his time in Canada. In Particular his relationship with the group Sonde. One will be a text on R. Murray Schafer’s Asterion and its dispersed documentation. I am so excited about this one and I am looking forward to working on it!
(In publication). Bertolani, V. and Santacesaria, L. “Women presence in chamber and symphonic music: the case of Milan”. Eds. Julia H. Minors and Laura Hamer, London: Routledge.
Bertolani, V. 2020. “Accostamenti: Walter Branchi, Barry Truax e Hildegard Westerkamp.” In Utopia dell’ascolto. Ed. Antonio Mastrogiacomo, Sileno Edizioni.
Bertolani, V. and Santacesaria, L. “Curating Diversity in Italy: Gender and ethnic distribution in contemporary and experimental music programming” OnCurating 2020.
Bertolani, V. 2020. “Analysis of Gayle Young’s Ice Creek (2018).” In Between the Tracks: Analytical Investigations of Non-canonical Electronic Music. Eds. Kerry Hagan and Miller Puckette, MIT Press.
Sallis, F., Bertolani, V., et al. 2018. “Introduction.” In Live-electronic Music: Composition, Performance, Study. London: Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Live-Electronic-Music-Composition-Performance-Study/Sallis-Bertolani-Burle-Zattra/p/book/9781138022607
Bertolani, V. 2017. “Gli spazi del visibile nel teatro musicale di Mario Bertoncini e Franco Evangelisti.” Teatro di avanguardia e composizione sperimentale per la scena in Italia: 1960-1975. Gianmario Borio, Daniela Tortora, and Giordano Ferrari, eds. Venice, IT: Fondazione Cini. http://omp.cini.it/index.php/FGCOP/catalog/book/3
Bertolani, V. and F. Sallis. 2015. “Live Electronic Music.” In Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism, edited by Stephen Ross. London: Routledge. https://www.rem.routledge.com/articles/live-electronic-music
… and there are two more articles that are currently under review, so stay tuned for more!
Santacesaria, L. and V. Bertolani, “Suite “colori” by Mario Bertoncini. From performance to archival research”, Archival Notes 7 (2022 [2023]): 65-83.
Bertolani, V., Y. Nakai, L. Santacesaria, “What does musicology have to do with archiving? Three experiences of engagement”, Intersections, special issue “Alternative musicologies” 40/1 (2020 [2023]): 111-128.
- Bertolani, V. 2019. “Improvisatory exercises as a key to analyze group dynamics in collective improvisation: the case of the Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza.” Music Theory Online 25.1 (2019)
2020. “Review of Process and Form: Selected Writings on Music, by Gottfried Michael Koenig.” Notes, Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association 76, no. 4: 592-595. doi:10.1353/not.2020.0058.
2020. “Review of Luciano Berio, Interviste e colloqui, ed. by Vincenzina Ottomano” Notes, Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association 76, no. 3 (2020): 457-459. doi:10.1353/not.2020.0017.
2015. “CD Reviews.” ARRAY: The Journal of the International Computer Music Association Journal (Fall 2015), 41-3.
http://computermusic.org/media/documents/array/array15-16.pdf2015. “Stravinsky’s ‘Histoire du Soldat’: A Facsimile of the Sketches / Stravinsky’s ‘Pulcinella’: A Facsimile of the Sources and Sketches.” Fontes Artis Musicae 62, no. 2, 132-6
2013. “A Review of Magnar Breivik’s Musical Functionalism: The Musical Thoughts of Arnold Schoenberg and Paul Hindemith.” Critical Voices 3/1. https://journal.lib.uoguelph.ca/index.php/sofammj/article/view/2128
www.curatingdiversity.com Published: 24st June 2019. Curators: Valentina Bertolani and Luisa Santacesaria.
Bertolani, V. and Santacesaria, L. May 2019. “Report. Milan 2018-19: Chamber and Symphonic Music.” https://curatingdiversity.org/milano/
Bertolani, V. and Santacesaria, L. April 15, 2019. “Dataset. Milan 2018-19: Chamber and Symphonic Music.” https://curatingdiversity.org/milano/
Bertolani, V. February 2018. “Dataset. Perspectives of New Music’ 1966–1970 [5.2–8.1]” http://bit.ly/PNM–dataset