La zoomusicologia e la ricerca semiotica

Current position

Guest Professor at the Finnish Network University of Semiotics


Other duties and activities

Scientific director of the Umweb publishing series

Scientific advisor of the Journal of Biosemiotics

Member of the Organising and Scientific Committee for the next International Congress on Musical Signification (Rome, Sept. 2006), and the next World Congress of the International Association for Semiotic Studies (Helsinki, June 2007)


Honors and Prizes

2004, Helsinki: "Oscar Parland" Award of Semiotics to a Prominent Semiotician


Education

October 1999- May 2002
University of Helsinki - Faculty of Arts
PhD in Musicology (eximia cum laude approbatur)

October 1993- March 1999
Università di Bologna (Italy) - Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia
Master Degree in Discipline delle Arti della Musica e dello
Spettacolo, cum laude (i.e., Master of Arts)


Lectures

· 1st semester 2000/2001
Italian Semiotics;
Zoosemiotics

· 2nd semester 2000/2001
Zoosemiotics

· 2001/2002
Musical semiotics

· 1st semester 2001/2002
Ecosemiotics

· 2nd semester 2001/2002
Zoosemiotics;
Film semiotics

· 1st semester 2002/2003
Zoomusicology

· 2nd semester 2002/2003
Popular music studies

· 1st semester 2003/2004
Zoomusicology

· 1st semester 2004/2005:
Musicology
Film semiotics

· 2nd semester 2004/2005
Biosemiotics , Scientific monographs

2006
-Dall'inganno alla musica in tre mosse: introduzione alla
zoomusicologia, Helsinki: Artemisia

2004
-[et al.], Semiotics from S to S, Helsinki-Dortmund: Umweb

2002
-How musical is a whale? Towards a theory of zoomusicology,
Helsinki: Acta Semiotica Fennica


Articles in international scientific journals

2005
- "A whale of a sonata: zoomusicology and the question of musical structures", in SEED, 5/1

2004
- "Piccole scienze crescono: il caso della zoomusicologia", in Musica/Realtà 74
-"Liars, players and artists: a triadic zoosemiotic relation", in Semiotica 150 - 1/4

2002
- "Semiotinis tyrimas: zoomuzikologiyos metodikos in problemos", in Kulturos Barai, 6 (451)

2001
- "Methodologies and problems in zoomusicology", in Sign System Studies, 29/1

2000
- "Merenneidon Laulut, Laiskiasen Skaalat", in Synteesi, 4

1999
- "Il canto della megattera: una musica bestiale!", in Musica/Realtà 60

1996
- "Una teoria della velocità", in Quaderni di Musica Applicata, 19


Articles in international compilation works and in international scientific proceedings

2005
- Entry "Zoomusicologia", in Dizionario della Musica nella Globalità dei Linguaggi (ed. by Gino Stefani and Stefania Guerra Lisi) Lucca: LIM
- "Quei quattro elementi di Liverpool", in Dizionario della Musica nella Globalità dei Linguaggi (ed. by Gino Stefani and Stefania Guerra Lisi) Lucca: LIM
- "Sissejuhatus antropoloogilisse zoosemiootikasse. Inimeste ja teiste loomade vahelise suhte semiootiline käsitlus" in Acta Semiotica Estica II. Tartu: Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus
- "More or less music: a zoosemiotic approach to the definition of musical phenomena". In Music and Arts. Helsinki: Acta Semiotica Fennica

2004
- "S for Salmon - Writing in the style of Umberto Eco", in Semiotics from S to S. Helsinki-Dortmund: Umweb
- "S for Sebeok - introducing anthropological zoosemiotics", in Semiotics from S to S. Helsinki-Dortmund: Umweb
- "S for Singalong - Popular music and pacifism", in Semiotics from S to S. Helsinki-Dortmund: Umweb
- "S for Soccer - Semiotics applied to football", in Semiotics from S to S. Helsinki-Dortmund: Umweb
- "S for Spare time - Playing with semiotics", in Semiotics from S to S. Helsinki-Dortmund: Umweb
- "S for Splitting - Leave your partner with Greimasian modalities", in Semiotics from S to S. Helsinki-Dortmund: Umweb
- "S for Stumble - A semiotic analysis of error aesthetics", in Semiotics from S to S. Helsinki-Dortmund: Umweb
- "S for Swindle - Deceiving behaviour in animals", in Semiotics from S to S. Helsinki-Dortmund: Umweb
- [et al.] "S for Strawberry Fields - towards a systematic analysis of Beatlesesque repertoire", in Semiotics from S to S. Helsinki-Dortmund: Umweb
- [et al.] "S for Synergy - an interdisciplinary talk about animal experimentation", in Semiotics from S to S. Helsinki-Dortmund: Umweb

2003
- "Symptomatology of a semiotic research: the case of zoömusicology", in Musical Semiotics Revisited (ed. by Eero Tarasti). Helsinki: Acta semiotica Fennica

2002
- "Kaunotar ja hirviö: Toislajisten eläinten esteettiset merkit", in Eläin Ihmisen Mielenmaisemassa (ed. by Henni Ilomäki and Outi Lauhakangas), Helsinki: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura

2001
- "Elementi animati", in I quattro elementi nella Globalità dei Linguaggi (ed. by Gino Stefani and Stefania Guerra Lisi), Roma: Borla
- "Nature de la Musique / Musique de la Nature", in Approches herméneutiques de la musique (ed. by Jacques Viret). Strasbourg: Presses universitaires de Strasbourg