Interviews and People Talking

10 March 2024Must seepibinko

This is a partial list of interviews and video of situations with people talking in the pibinko.org network. Articles start from December 2006. For more video with broader settings (music, natural or not-so-natural phenomena, animals, etc.) see also http://www.pibinko.org/videos/.

The majority of these interviews is in Italian. We do make an effort to maintaing a English version of most of our articles, but subtitling all the videos goes beyond the scope of our standard operations. Please write us if you do not understand the content, but would like to know more.

If you would like to have an interview by: micalosapevo@pibinko.org or +393317539228

Community Place Names

8 March 2024Interactive Maps, Mapspibinko

This map represents the progress in the collection of “community place names” in the pibinko.org network projects.

These are localities and other geographic features which currently are not represented in official base maps (namely, the 1:10000 so called “technical regional cartography”). For the various areas we have engaged, we indicated the starting year. All communities of the participating villages are acknowledged.

Val di Farma “South” (Torniella and Piloni): 2014. the first version of these place name is also available on the Regione Toscana Open Data portal: https://dati.toscana.it/dataset/toponomastica-partecipata-della-val-di-farma)
Val di Farma “North” (Scalvaia): 2017
Tatti: 2018-2019
Roccastrada: 2020
Roccatederighi: 2022
Monterotondo Marittimo: 2022
Montemerano – ongoing, in collaboration with CIRCOLARE. Waiting for data (see link, in Italian).

If you click on one of the points you will see a list of pibinko.org articles referring to that location.

If you would like to add your area to the map (the project operates globally…we started with Southern Tuscany but we like to keep a wide angle on our work), or you would like to recommend fixes to the current points, or retrieve a copy of the data (which is available as open data) please contact micalosapevo@pibinko.org or +393317539228.
For more articles about our community maps: https://www.pibinko.org/it/?s=mappa+di+comunit%C3%A0 and https://www.pibinko.org/jugbandcollinemetallifere/?s=mappa+di+comunit%C3%A0 – the links are in Italian, but you will find interesting characters.
To support the improvement of the map: https://www.pibinko.org/support/

A Video by CNR IBE Featuring a “BuioMetro” in the Svalbard Islands

8 March 2024Announcementsbuiometria partecipativapibinko

During our last “M’illumino di Meno” we explained that Luciano Massetti from the Italian Research Council’s Institute of Bioeconomy could not participate directly to the BuioMetria Partecipativa events due to the overlap with a mission to the Svalbard Islands. In fact, his goal was to deploy a night sky quality sensor. We did check with Luciano the possibility of having some form of live connection, but due to the tight schedule in such a peculiar research facility this was not possible. However, Luciano was able to document a few moments of his presence in this video, from which you may also have a glimps of what happens when Italian researchers venture in very cold places:

For more information:

Luciano Massetti in the pibinko.org Network: https://www.pibinko.org/en/?s=luciano+massetti
BuioMetria Partecipativa: https://www.pibinko.org/buiometria-partecipativa-2/
AOB: micalosapevo@pibinko.org o 3317539228

Video source: https://video.ibe.cnr.it/w/oZwcqDV6UYxZ8rG1jcHxAv

Also Castelfiorentino is in the Heart of Tuscany

6 March 2024Compositionspibinko

Jennifer the Verona Reindeer and Mauro Tirannosauro have ascertained it beyond any reasonable doubt. Also Castelfiorentino, close to Florence, is “in the heart of Tuscany”.

Help us to draw the perimeter of this great big hear by letting us know about locations to micalosapevo@pibinko.org or +33317539228. For the moment the heart of Tuscany is looking like a tight ventricle, but we are only in the very first steps of this survey.

To follow the story: https://www.pibinko.org/en/?s=heart+tuscany

To Friends in Bayern and Baden-Württemberg (and surroundings)…

6 March 2024Announcements, Gran(i)TourThe Metalliferous Hills Jug Bandpibinko

…if you live in Bayern or Baden-Württemberg and you are curious about the Jug Band Colline Metallifere and about stuff we propose about “music & territories”, please contact us for an initiative which will be reaching you in a couple of months: micalosapevo@pibinko.org o 3317539228.

For a refresher:

Main JBCM web site: http://www.jugbandcm.it
More news about the JBCM (especially since January 2024): https://www.pibinko.org/en/?s=jug+colline
How does the JBCM operate: https://www.pibinko.org/jugbandcollinemetallifere/jbcm-202309-presentation/

Please note that for posts after May 2023 the Italian-language version of the sites has a lot more content than the English-language version, so you are encouraged to browse the Italian version..

Gran(i)Tour 2024

5 March 2024ProjectsThe Metalliferous Hills Jug Bandpibinko

The Jug Band Colline Metallifere goes North with the 2024 GRAN(i)TOUR!

One of the articles about our 2023 Brezel Tour

After the “Geomusical Tour” in 2019 and the “Brezel Tour” in 2023, the “GRAN(i)TOUR” with the Jug Band Colline Metallifere in 2024 is all about grains (Grani in Italian). At the bottom of this page you will find more articles about the development of this project.

The reason for the tour comes from two invitations at festivals in farms commemorating Rudolf Steiner’s answer to the farmers exactly 100 years ago and that point further into our future.

Our band is a music collective from three countries and three generations, based in the Colline Metallifere, the metalliferous hills of Tuscany. We have been working together since 2018. About half of our repertoire consists of our own songs on contemporary topics, all based on folk, blues and rock, and we also play some of the classics in our own interpretation.

In addition to the music, our passions always play a role in our shows: environmental issues, stories about our land, anecdotes about agriculture, and more incredibly strange facts. We do have recorded material, but our strength is live performances, and “Musica&Territorio!” is our motto.

In the photo from left to right:

Simone Sandrucci – recording studio expert and music teacher, vocals, guitar, banjo, mandolin
Wolfgang Scheibe – ex-typesetter with a small printing workshop, long-time biodynamic farmer consultant, one-string bass
Dario Canal – educator, songwriter, vocals, guitar, harmonica, washboard, percussion
Andrea Giacomelli (aka Jack O’Malley) – Environmental engineer, songwriter, vocals, guitar, percussion

(photo credits: Romina Zago)

The GRAN(i)TOUR 2024 will take us from Maremma to Trentino, Munich and the Black Forest, Stuttgart and Ludwigsburg and the Hohenlohe region. We will be on the road from June 14 to June 30, and then back to Tuscany for more Summer gigs.

The tour is co-sponsored by

The Mindful Mona Lisa project

For more information and booking: jugbandcm@pibinko.org or +393317539228.

Follow us on www.jugbandcm.it or Instagram @jugbandcm.
If you would like to co-sponsor the project: https://www.pibinko.org/support/
For more information and booking: jugbandcm@pibinko.org or +393317539228.

The BuioMetria Partecipativa Map now embeds also readings by Unihedron

4 March 2024Announcementsbuiometria partecipativapibinko

A sky quality meter in the process of being “passed” as a relay baton between two characters in the pibinko.org network (Dec. 2016).

After switching back on the interactive BuioMetria Partecipativa map during the twentieth edition of “M’illumino di Meno”, we are gradually adding layers to the canvas that we would like to use over the coming months to trigger actions about light and darkness.

After the CNR IBE monitoring network, we have reloaded the data collected by Unihedron, i.e. the producer of the “Sky Quality Meter”, which we renamed as “buiometri” for our Italian communities.

The new map is available at https://www.pibinko.org/buiometriapartecipativa-map/.

We would like to recall that the Sky Quality Meter is not the only type of sensor existing for the measurement of night sky quality. In fact, with the BuioMetria Partecipativa since 2011 we have conducted various intercomparison and cross-calibration experiments. However, the SQM still remains as the most widespread entry-level sensor, plus it is the one which we have historically used as a liaison between the various participants to the buiometria measurement campaigns.

For more information: micalosapevo@pibinko.org or +393317539228.

Here we go with the “In the Heart of Tuscany” survey!

3 March 2024Announcementspibinko

The more you review presentations of tourism and culture situations in Tuscany, the more you get the feeling that a very high number of these places is characterised as being “…in the heart of Tuscany”. At this point we would like to better assess what is the perimeter of this heart…

The pibinko.org network, with over thirty years of experience in incredibly strange mapping, welcomes you to a “geo-anatomy” exercise, by helping us to locate the pulse-setting organ in this region.

If you manage a business, or you know somebody who does, and this business is “in the heart of Tuscany”, please let us know at micalosapevo@pibinko.org or +393317539228.

For those of you who are more social-network oriented, please see also https://www.facebook.com/groups/intheheartoftuscany/

All of your feedback will be relayed to our mapping department, and they will gradually create a map, which will be published at some point (we will give the survey a couple of months). If you like the initiative and would like to help us keep it alive, please consider supporting the pibinko.org network (https://www.pibinko.org/support/)

Thank you for your attention, and best regards from…the heart of Tuscany!

Who Rules the Waves? (2010)

2 March 2024Stuff-o-thequePresspibinko

195 pages. For more items in the “Stuff-o-theque”: https://www.pibinko.org/stuff-o-teque/

The BuioMetria Partecipativa Map now includes the CNR IBE Research Network

1 March 2024Announcementsbuiometria partecipativapibinko

Thanks to Luciano Massetti of the Italian Research Council Bioeconomy Institute, who is a historical collaborator of the BMP project, we are glad to add to our “classical” measures (i.e. those made with manual measurements by citizens), a new information layer.

This is represented by the location of fixed stations that CNR IBE has been deploying since 2015 to monitor artificial night sky brightness in various parts of Tuscany. The Tuscan network had a recent “spin-off” in the Svalbard Islands, since Luciano was on a mission in February 2024 to install a sensor in that remote location. By clicking on a given station, you may either review publications where the data have been presented, or contact Luciano for more information.

The map is available at: https://www.pibinko.org/buiometriapartecipativa-map/
For more information: micalosapevo@pibinko.org or +393317539228
If you have date related to night sky quality or light pollution that you would like to share with the BuioMetria Partecipativa project, please contact us.
To supoort data integration activities in the pibinko.org network: https://www.pibinko.org/support