This was initially sent via our mailing list distribution and is being reposted here. Hello, I hope you are well. In Tatti (Southern Tuscany) the sun is shining and a lot of music is spinning around. We just published the daily Lithobag, and [CUUUUT…TOO MUCH INFORMATION]. Some of you may have seen updates via social … Continue reading Participatory Lithology, end of week 2: here comes geojazz
versione 31.3.2020 To understand what Participatory Lithology is, and how we are proposing it, we encourage you to read the summary of the project’s first week (March 21-27, 2020). In the project we have considered four roles: collectors, classifiers, entertainers, and sponsors. To consider the effort involved in the project, you may review what the … Continue reading Participatory Lithology: Options for Sponsors
S+T+ARTS is a European Union initiative focused on the promotion of projects where science, technology, and arts are integrated to raise awareness of the societal challenges and global concerns we are facing (see the starts.eu site for details). starts.eu published an article about participatory lithology, presenting it as ” a rocky initiative launched by pibinko.org … Continue reading Participatory Lithology presented on S+T+ARTS.eu
In the Participatory Lithology project we are opening the sixth season of our branobag blog series. Given the context of the project, the articles will be issued as “lithobags”. If you don’t know what a branobag is, you can easily find out from this page. There will be two important differences with respect to previous … Continue reading Lithobag #1: Rock and a Hard Place
We might not be starting a weekly reporting of this initiative, but we want to make sure we can remember the first seven days. We had the possibility of experiencing a series of events which proved to be interesting, curious, and at times genuinely entertaining. All this in the midst of an extremely severe situation, … Continue reading “Between a Rock and a hard Phase”: our first week with Participatory Lithology (Mar. 21-27)
This guitar was given as a present by Vittorio Giacomelli to Edo Giacomelli, his younger brother, in the early Sixties. It was then given by Edo Giacomelli to Andrea Giacomelli around 2005. Since then it has been used in various gigs and musical situations (including the riff for the super-scary Revenge of the Killer Chihuahua … Continue reading The “Giacomelli” Exo X27
Welcome! This is the entry point for the “little participatory lithology exercise” launched on March 21, 2020 from Tatti (Southern Tuscany) by pibinko.org with the Jug Band Colline Metallifere (Metalliferous Hills Jug Band), networked with other folks around Italy and abroad. To make your way into the project, there are various avenues. You may choose … Continue reading Participatory Lithology
This is Andrea Giacomelli’s nickname for musical stuff. Jack is one of the creators of the Metalliferous Hills Jug Band (i.e. Jug Band dalle Colline Metallifere project. This is an inter-generational and international collective based in Southern Tuscany, started in March 2017, as a development of multiple years of activity in outreach and community engagement … Continue reading Jack O’Malley
While Tender by Blur plays… It’s not going to be on par with a virtual visit to the New York MOMA, nor with some free movie streaming release, or other offers that many renown sites are proposing in these days. Still…since they gave us a bit more time at home, here is what you may … Continue reading Hints from the pibinko.org archive for your extended home stays
Wolfgang Scheibe is a multi-faceted character (graphic designer, biodynamic advisor, and musician) who relocated over ten years ago from Germany to Maremma, Southern Tuscany. In the move from Baden-Württemberg to the Tuscan hills, among other peculiarities of these places he made contact with one of the icons of Italian rural settings: the Ape Piaggio. This … Continue reading TattiStampa: hand-made prints with “Ape” from Southern Tuscany