Foto di Mario Straccali, trombonista della Banda Filarmonica del Paese. La foto è fatta in direzione Nord (verso Siena). Video collegato, con musica della banda di Roccatederighi e canti di maggerini: Quanto è buio il cielo in Maremma, 1.5.2009 (parti di questo video sono state poi riutilizzate in un servizio del TG2 Costume e Società sulla BuioMetria Partecipativa.
Foto di Alessandro Gaido, torinese emigrato in mezzo al bosco da 20 anni. Al Belagaio abbiamo organizzato vari eventi sin dal 2009. Gli eventi hanno finora riguardato la BuioMetria Partecipativa (non a caso, essendo la zona del Castello una fra le più buie d’Italia, come riconosciuto anche da scienziati internazionali nel 2015), e anche un po’ della Mappa di Comunità della Val di Farma. Brano abbinato, sicuramente Nobody knows when you’re down and out interpretato da Peter Crivelli dentro la corte del castello nel 2017.
In relazione a un nuovo esercizio per la BuioMetria Partecipativa, di cui vi diremo meglio fra qualche giorno, stiamo raccogliendo foto di alcune località fatte di giorno e di notte. Ad ogni posto fotografato abbiniamo -se la sappiamo- un po’ di storia e di iniziative fatte, e possibilmente un brano. Come sigla di apertura per la BuioMetria Partecipativa “giorno e notte” non possiamo non proporre altro che Night and Day, scritta da Cole Porter nel 1932 e poi eseguita da numerosissmi artisti.
Per vedere le scene raccolte finora seguite il tag BMPGEN sul sito della Jug Band Colline Metallifere: http://www.pibinko.org/jugbandcollinemetallifere/tag/bmpgen/
Per maggiori informazioni: bmp@pibinko.org.
Tatti è la località lontana da tre capoluoghi comunali ma vicina a molte situazioni che non sono né di capoluogo e nemmeno molto comuni, come un paio di altri posti che conosciamo (ma mica tanti).
In particolare, da Tatti nelle sere di tramonto invernale si possono vedere le cime innevate della Corsica. Qualcuno, in assenza di foschia, dice di avere visto anche le Baleari (ma forse era in “foschia di assenzio”). Tatti, oltre a ospitare una festa dell’olio, un rally autunnale, un festival Reggae (per 8 anni), un agricampeggio e vari microproduttori di cose bòne speciali (miele, zafferano e altre chicche) o stampe artigianali è la base di Mauro il Tirannosauro e di due dei componenti della Jug Band Colline Metallifere.
Una recente analisi di Tatti è stata fatta per Radio Popolare Milano, in mezzo ad altre spiegazioni su iniziative della rete pibinko.org (28.3.2020).
Brano musicale: in attesa di perfezionare il Tatti-twist, una jam session capitata nella stamperia di Wolfgang (aprile 2019).
La foto è scattata in direzione sud-ovest dalla parte Nord del paese.
Riceviamo da Raman “Peter” Crivelli la foto di un suo olio su tela 60×80 cm con invito a ripubblicare, ascoltando la Freedom Ballad che ci aveva spedito sabato scorso.
…we know, the Tuscan Metalliferous Hills, llike other rural areas, are often the setting for sighting and exotic findings. Who could ever forget about the 2011 panther, the 2007 UFO near Roccatederighi, or -going further back- the Accesa Lake crocodile? [1].
Anyhow, should you be passing around Tatti, in the Massa Marittima area (Southern Tuscany), and you cross a T-Rex, do not be concerned. No need to call the wildlife service, or the guys from the prehistoric theme park in Valpiana, He did not escape, nor did he come to bother. On the contrary: he is here to collaborate on the Participatory Lithology project, given his experience since the Cretaceous. His name is Mauro.
Following his performance on a tune explaining the story of this project and of Uncle Enzo’s stones, he thought he should give a proper introduction of himself. He sent us a file which we translated from Tyrannosaurese into English (and Italian), and published on this page.
You may also contact Mauro by e-mail: maurotrex@pibinko.org
[1] In fact, the most incredibly strange sighting remembered in the pibinko.org network goes back to the Seventies. A local newspaper wrote that in the lower Cornia Valley a giant toad was lurking in the crops. Possibly it became so big due to a diet warped by old-school fertilizers. Should anybody remember about this piece of news, or has documentation about similar episoded, please write to micalosapevo@pibinko.org.
To understand what Participatory Lithology is, and how we propose it, please see the summary of our first week of activity (March 21-27, 2020). In this project we have considered four roles: collectors, classifiers, entertainers, and sponsors. Let’s see here what entertainers can do.
Resident (at home) DJ
If, withouth looking it up on a search engine, you can think of a song mentioning rocks, stones, or minerals, you can write to micalosapevo@pibinko.org indicating
and, if possible
…we don’t need each and all of these additional inputs, but the more you can send, the better
Your proposal will be evaluated by the Participatoryt Lithology working group: Jack O’Malley, Mauro Tirannosauro, the Jug Band Colline Metallifere & friends). If the song fits in the context of the project, it will be added to a playlist from which one song per day is published in the Lithobag blog series. You will be indicated as the selectors for your song and we will thank you for our participation.
If the song you propose has not yet been published, but is already in the playlist (as of Apr. 4 we have about forty to go), your suggestiong will be summed to that of other “resident at home DJs” who proposed it, and you will all be credited for your suggestion when the song will be out on the Lithobag.
NB: If the song you propose will be the result of some online keyword search…ok, that is not forbidden but (1) Mauro the T-Rex will immediately notice and (2) what is the purpose of an online search in the context of Participatory Lithology?
Musicians and/or singers
We like DJ sets, but we like more the live stuff.
With the Jug Band dalle Colline Metallifere (i.e. Metalliferous Hills Jug Band) since 2018 we started a project where live music and outreach on environment, agriculture, and similar topics are merged in a single situation. Please check the JBCM site to get an idea. Among other exhibitions you should start from the events we held in Milan+ Brescia , then in Milan+Germania in 2019, and -more recently, in Roccastrada + Massa Marittima (Tuscany).
Bringing this format in Participatory Lithology, we started by writing some lyrics on songs that we use as jingles and promotion for the project. For the moment we have a first performance featuring Francesco Ceri from Matti delle Giuncaie. By Apr. 4 we will have a second performance out. For a third song, with English lyrics, we are looking for an English mother tongue vocalist/musician (Jack O’Malley from the JBCM is quite fluent, but it would be cool to find somebody born & bred in an English-speaking country).
So: if you like the Metalliferous Hills Jug Band vibe, and you would like to collaborate on new performances for Participatory Lithology, please write to micalosapevo@pibinko.org
Other forms of entertainment
Since the recreational part of participatory lithology was born inside a musical collective, it is easy for us to think in terms of musical options. However, if you are not musician, but you have other forms of expression, and you can think of a creative way to convey Participatory Lithologuy, you can still write us…we’re curious.
What’s in it for you
The entertainers for Participatory Lithology (as well as other professional profiles participating, such as photographers and “classifiers”) are not here just for fun, or because they have a lot of free time in a lock-down phase. We know that what we are doing has an interesting non-local visibility: all project contents are issued in Italian and English, and you can check out from this page the coverage that pibinko.org activities have received in the past (and in these few weeks for P.L.). Then, if our prospective sponsors will see value in the project, we will have support that will share across participants. We will see!
In the article header: The la Hungry March Band from Brooklyn, NY, in Cagliari, Sardinia, 2005.
Maybe on a rainy day blues, Mauro decided to take a break from his work on Participatory Lithology.
First he spent some time in roulette mode with ideas from the pibinko.org network. Then he found the online version of The Revenge of the Killer Chihuahua and of the Zombies (2007), where he is also co-starring…you can see him around minute 15. With parental control, please 😉
We are writing from Tatti, a small (pop. 209) village in Southern Tuscany, Italy. To give you some bearings, we are some 100 km “South by Southwest” of Florence. As a sort of resilient response to the COVID-19 crisis, we have launched on March 21 a project called “participatory lithology“. This is our project logo:
The project is networking people from our village with geologists all over the globe in order to help us classify unknown mineral samples we have in various households in the village (and there are many in this area, which used to be a mining district), and potentially extend this exercise to other areas. The Chief Officer for our project is Mauro il Tirannosauro, i.e. Mauro the T-Rex:
A key component of the project is music: since 2007 we create projects using music as a facilitating element, while doing outreach on environmental issues and promoting lesser known aspects of territories we relate with (starting from, but not limited to, Southern Tuscany).
In the case of Participatory Lithology, in addition to creating playlists of existing songs mentioning rocks, stones, or minerals (we found about 40 in less than a week, which we are now publishing in a daily blog series called Lithobag), with folks from the Metalliferous Hills Jug Band we are also writing lyrics for new songs.
These lyrics, for a start, follow the melody of well-known tunes. This is more or less what we see happening with many musical performances circulating around the web in this period as a reaction to the COVID-19 crisis. However our lyrics are not about the crisis, but about our project and the people working on it. Then, we have our rock-blues band and may turn these into completely different songs at some point… anyway: at the time of writing we have two songs with Italian lyrics, which are being performed by Italian artists (see the first one here).
Where do English mother tongue folks come in?
A couple of days ago we created lyrics for an English cover, and it would be interesting to have this performed by an English mother-tongue person. Given the “inspiration” song we started from, ideally we are looking for folks from the USA…but we will be glad to consider other options (Canada, UK, Ireland, Down Under, Channel Islands…or any nationality as long as you are very, very, fluent in English).
What’s in it for you?
The project is running as a completely community-based and self-funded initiative, and this is not a rich community, so we cannot provide remuneration for this, at least with our current levels of funding. At the same time, we are having increasing interest on our project, so visibility in an international network is assured. Please check out the “In the media” section to see the type of coverage we have received for past projects, and last week for participatory lithology. Then, if the project develops as we would like, we would be glad of delivering you some Tuscan wine/food from our area.
Learning more about Participatory Lithology
Note
Given the current social distancing constraints in most of the environments where our potential performers reside, we figure this performance may be made either by one single person who can play and sing, or by two or more performers if they happen to be under the same roof in this period.
Please write to jugbandcm@pibinko.org if you are interested.
Dec. 2, 2019? Photo by Peter Crivelli
