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With Marco Lutzu*

Dealing mainly with unwritten music, ethnomusicologists have developed various systems of graphic representation of music. Not only music itself but also different aspects of musical cultures have been described through images since the origins of the discipline. Over the years, both static and dynamic images have been used for various purposes: analysing musical performance, describing rituals or the making process of musical instruments, presenting the research results to a generic public, and so on.

The seminar aims to discuss theoretical issues and practical examples focusing on the graphic representation of musical cultures based on my 20-years research experience in Sardinia, Cuba and Equatorial Guinea.

*Marco Lutzu is Research Associate of Ethnomusicology at the University of Cagliari. He has carried out fieldwork in Sardinia, Cuba, and Equatorial Guinea, focusing on the relationship between music and religion, improvised poetry, hip hop culture, and performance analysis.

He is the scientific director of the Encyclopedia of Sardinian Music (L’Unione Sarda, 2012), and co-edited the volume Investigating Musical Performance: Theoretical Models and Intersections (Routledge 2020). He is the scientific director and co-designer of various multimedia museums and exhibitions on Sardinian traditional music and improvised poetry, including the Museo Multimediale del canto a tenore (Bitti). As visual ethnomusicologist he directed more than 20 documentaries on the main topic of his research.