Conference Papers

  • Alessandro Cecchi, The Sound of Industry: Musical Experimentation in Italian Industrial Film during the 1960s (Music and Media 3rd Study Group Conference, Lisboa, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 10-12 June 2011)
  • Marco Targa, Reconstructing the Sound of Italian Silent Cinema: Contexts, Praxis, Repertoires (Silent Film Sound: History, Theory and Practice, Kiel, Christian Albrechts University, 22-23 February 2012)
  • Ilario Meandri, From the Marvellous to the Anti-Music: Film Music Clichés and Formulas from an Ethnomusicology Perspective (Music and the Moving Image VII, NYU Steinhardt, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, 1-3 June 2012)
  • Alessandro Cecchi and Maurizio Corbella, Experimentation, Documentation, Censorship: A Joris Ivens’s Industrial Film and the Italian National Broadcasting Television, Ilario Meandri, From the Marvellous to the Anti-Music: Film Music Clichés and Formulas in an Ethnomusicology Perspective, and Marco Targa, Reconstructing the Sound of Silent Cinema: New Documents for the Study of Music in Italian Silent Films (Music and Media 4th Study Group Conference, Torino, Università degli Studi, 28-29 June 2012)
  • Alessandro Cecchi, Topoi of Technology in Italian ‘Experimental’ Industrial Film (1959-1973) (International Conference on Music Semiotics – In Memory of Raymond Monelle, Edinburgh, The University of Edinburgh, 26-28 October 2012)
  • Ilario Meandri, Per una storia della prassi, delle tecnologiee delle tecniche di post produzione del suono filmico in Italia: gli archivi sonori della rumoristica italiana, and Marco Targa, Ricostruire il suono del cinema muto italiano: contesti, prassi, repertori (La storiografia musicale e la musica per film, Venezia, Fondazione Levi, 15-16 March 2013)
  • Alessandro Cecchi, Head Titles and the Antinomies of Textuality: The Italian Industrial Film of the 1960s as Case Study, and Ilario Meandri, Ethnomusicological Cues on Trailer, Logo and Title Music: The Formulaic Reloaded (Titles, Teasers and Trailers, Edinburgh, The University of Edinburgh, 22-23 April 2013)
  • Ilario Meandri, 1967: The Year of the ‘Ambient Machine’: Local Adaption of Global Technologies in the Italian Film Sound Post-Production Process of the Late Sixties (nnRs: Music and Technology (post 1945), Greenville, Furman University, 31 May-2 June 2013)
  • Ilario Meandri, 1967: The Year of the ‘Ambient Machine’: Local Adaption of Global Technologies in the Italian Film Sound Post-Production Process of the Late Sixties (The 8th Art of Record Production Conference, Québec, Université Laval, 12-14 July 2013)
  • Alessandro Cecchi, Tra analisi della struttura audiovisiva e studio dei processi di significazione. Il caso del film industriale italiano degli anni Sessanta (X Convegno di Analisi e Teoria Musicale del GATM – Gruppo Analisi e Teoria Musicale, Rimini, Istituto Superiore di Studi Musicali “G. Lettimi”, 3-6 October 2013)
  • Marco Targa, Verdi and Silent Cinema (Verdi’s Third Century: Italian Opera Today, New York, New York University, 9-13 October 2013)
  • Marco Targa, La partitura per piccola orchestra delle musiche di Manlio Mazza per il film Cabiria (Pastrone, 1914): varianti e problemi di sincronizzazione (L’immaginario della Vestale nel cinema muto italiano degli anni ’10, Jesi, Fondazione Pergolesi Spontini, 12 October 2013)
  • Marco Targa, Verdi e il cinema muto (Verdi narrateur, Paris, Université de Caen-Basse Normandie, 24-25 October 2013)
  • Marco Targa, Verdi e il cinema muto (Dentro il cristallo arcano. Verdi on Screen, Universités de Fribourg et de Lausanne, 27-29 November 2013).