Diagrams and Abstract Thinking to Connect Images and Music — The Art of Diagram, June 29, Study Group Musical Digram - Zürcher Hochschule der Künste (online), June 29 2023,
Video
Energy and SNR-Aware Robotic Swarm Coordination for Aquatic Cleaning Operations, VTC, co-presented with P. Fazio, 2023 IEEE 97th Vehicular Technology Conference, Florence, June 22 2023
Mathematics for Timbre and Color, Timbre for Data Analysis. Symposium “Timbre Topologies – Perceptual and Conceptual Spaces,” Zurich University of the Arts, Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, scheduled for February 3, 2023
Math as Pleasure, Math as Bridge (video participation). Joint Mathematics Meetings 2023, Boston, USA, January 7, 2023
Sonification and Clustering: a Multi-Sensory Perspective for Precision Medicine. Video, online for Stockholm. In collaboration with V. Distefano. Conference on Sonification of Health and Environmental Data (SoniHED 2022), November 2022
"Quantum RoboSound." In collaboration with V. Seidita and A. Chella. IEEE RO-MAN 2022, Naples, August 30 2022
"Hypercube + Rubik’s Cube + Music = HyperCubeHarmonic." In collaboration with T. Yoshino, P. Chiu, and Y. Kitamura. Mathematics and Computation in Music, Atlanta, June 24 2022
"Some Mathematical and Computational Relations Between Timbre and Color." In collaboration with J. S. Arias-Valero), Mathematics and Computation in Music, Atlanta, June 22 2022
CubeHarmonic: when the Rubik's cube becomes a musical instrument. Joint Mathematics Meetings, Seattle (rescheduled online), April 2022
"Quantum of Sound, the Sound of Quanta." In collaboration with Prof. Davide Rocchesso. 1st International Symposium on Quantum Computing and Musical Creativity. November 19, 2021. Video
"Clustering longitudinal data with category theory for diabetic kidney disease." CLADAG conference. Italy (online), September 9, 2021
"Category-Inspired Diabetic Kidney Disease Trajectory Clusterings." DSSV conference. Nederland (online), July 7, 2021
"Color and Timbre Gestures." Workshop on Mathematics and Music. University of Pavia (online), June 28, 2021
"Categories and Clusters to investigate Similarities in Diabetic Kidney Disease Patients. SIS, Pisa (online), June 22, 2021
"Exploring Sonic Environments." With Daniel Finch-Race and Heather Contant, ECLT-HSC Join Seminar (online) June 11, 2021
"Forme nella natura e nella musica: uno sguardo matematico." Scienza è Musica, University of Padova (online), April 30, 2021. Video, in Italian
“Categories, Color Gestures, and the 'Souvenir Theorem': using Math to navigate the Complexity of Music and the Visual Arts,” January 8 2021, Joint Mathematics Meetings, special session on Mathematics and Music, online — USA
“Category Theory and Compositional Music Interaction,” Interactive Music Technology, International Workshop Conference on Digital Intelligence and Aware Systems, January 23 2020, Salzburg, Austria
“Klein Concert: A Report from a Math-Musical Classroom Experience,” January 17 2020, Joint Mathematics Meetings, special session on Mathematics and the Arts, Denver, USA
“Can Beauty be Translated? A Journey between Mathematics, Music, and Nature,” November 7 2019, Laser Nomad Palermo, University of Palermo, Italy
“Natural Roots and Mathematical Abstraction: Algorithms and Beauty in Music,” Symposium on Art and Computers, October 15, 2019, Venezia, Italy
“Trees and Symphonies: Music and Mathematics to Navigate through Natural Complexity,” XVI Convegno di Analisi e Teoria Musicale, October 12, 2019, Rimini, Italy
“Navigare nella Complessità attraverso le Arti? Una ricerca matematica,” Ca’ Foscari, June 25 2019, Venezia, Italy
“Have Fun with Math and Music!”, Mathematics and Computation in Music 2019, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), June 20 2019, Madrid, Spain
“Shall We (Math and) Dance?” (co-authored with L. Turchet), Mathematics and Computation in Music 2019, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), June 18 2019, Madrid, Spain
“Categories, Musical Instruments, and Drawings: A Unification Dream” (co-authored with F. Favali), Mathematics and Computation in Music 2019, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), June 18 2019, Madrid, Spain
“Natural and Mathematical Forms and Transformations in Music,” International Workshop of Composition, Alba Music Festival, May 29 2019, Alba, Italy
Avant-première: “Klein Concert, Five Compositions on a Geometric Shape,” Satellite Event (Cathegorical Methods in Algebra) of PSSL 105 (Peripatetic Seminar on Sheaves and Logic), in collaboration with students M. Barilà, M. Camuti, B. Genco, M. Seggio, M. Vizzini, May 17 2019, Università di Palermo, Palermo, Italy
“Gesture, Music, and Categories: The Abstraction of Math meets the Variety of Expression,” Workshop “Linguistic investigations beyond language: gestures, body movement and primate linguistics,” March 11 2019, Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin, Germany
“Natura, Matematica e Musica,” Botanical Garden of Palermo, March 2, 2019, Palermo, Italy
“A Dialogue between Mathematics, Music, and Technology,” Tohoku University, Research Institute of
Electrical Communication, February 21 2019, Sendai, Japan
“Nature, Music, Maths, Coding (Composing Sound to Image),” lecture and workshop with students, October 5 2018, Greenwich University, London, UK
“Music from Nature: a Mathematical Journey,” October 4 2018, Queen Mary University, London UK
“How does a water lily sound? What could be the music of ammonites? A journey between mathematics,
music, and nature,” October 3 2018, Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
Poster presentation: “Mathematical theory of musical gestures, gestural similarity, and psychology: a first validating experiment,” in collaboration with T. Collins, D. Hsu, D. Papageorgiou, September 28 2018, WiMIR First Workshop, Télécom Paris Tech, France (Skype participation)
"Strutture condivise e trasformazioni in matematica e musica: dalle categorie alla musicologia" (with F. Favali),
video with my voice, slides, and pictures, ESCOM Giornata di studio italiana, campus Trigoria, Roma, June
28 2018
Poster presentation (with Prof. Yoshifumi Kitamura and Eri Kitamura): “CubeHarmonic: A New Interface from A Magnetic 3D Motion Tracking System to Music Performance,” NIME Conference, June 6 2018, Virginia Tech, USA
“A Dialogue between Mathematics and Art: Interface, Concepts, Applications,” January 24 2018, Goldsmiths University, London, UK
“MathemArt: presentarlo con i fiori. Un’introduzione alle connessioni fra teoria delle categorie, musica e arti visive,” January 18 2018, Physics Department — DIFTER, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Palermo, Italy
“Categories and Arts: Some cARTegory Theory of Music and Visual Arts,” January 10 2018, Joint Mathematics Meetings, special session on Mathematics and the Arts, San Diego, USA
Lecture and workshop with students, “Similarità gestuali: l’interpretazione musicale e il dialogo interdisciplinare”, December 20 2017, Music Conservatory “V. Bellini” of Palermo, Italy
“MathemArt: presentarlo con i fiori. Un’introduzione alle connessioni fra teoria delle categorie, musica e arti visive,” December 6 2017, Mathematics Department, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Palermo, Italy
“Music, Information, Expressivity,” November 22 2017, RIEC, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
“Sound, Image, Gestures, and Mathematics. New translation strategies between arts,” November 11 2017, Sound and Image Colloquium, University of Greenwich, London, UK
Talk, “Math, Music, and Visual Arts: some examples of connection,” Tohoku University, Sendai, June 21, 2017
Talk, “Mathematics, Art, and Cognitive Sciences: some examples of connection,” Conference of the International Journal of Arts and Sciences, University of Catania, Italy, May 29 - June 1st 2017
Talk, “Composition and Orchestration Revisited. Musical Gestures as a Bridge between Scores and Acoustics,” Composers’ Rostrum, May 2017, Conservatory of Palermo, Italy
Talk, “Math helps Art, Art helps Math,” Northern Kentucky University, April 14 2017
Lecture & Recital, “Mathematics and Music: an Italian Perspective,” University of Minnesota, in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Center of Minneapolis & St. Paul, May 29 2017
Italian Coaching for Opera singers for “Gianni Schicchi” and “Suor Angelica,” Spring 2017
Talk, “Mathematical Theory of Gestures to Connect Music and Visual Arts,” Spring Symposium 2017, Music and Sound Studies Group, University of Minnesota, March 25 2017
Talk, “Theoretical Physics and Category Theory as Tools for Analysis of Musical Performance and Composition,” Joint Mathematics Meeting, Special Session on Mathematics and Music, Atlanta, January 2017
Poster presentation, “Musical Gestures between Scores and Acoustics: A Creative Application to Orchestra,” Council of International Graduate Students Research Showcase, November 28, 2016
Talk M. Mannone, “The Pianist’s hand, the Conductor’s Baton, and Theoretical Physics: The Paradigm of String Theory in Musical Gestures of Performance and Composition”, Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship Seminar, March 2 2016, University of Minnesota, USA, and Poster (May 6)
Talk (signed also by G. Mazzola), “Physical String Theory for Creative Gestural Performance and Composition in Music”, International Conference on Musical Gesture as Creative Interface, March 2016, Porto, Portugal
Talk "A new approach to Musical Performance and Composition: Complex Time connecting Symbolic and Physical Reality", Conservatory of Palermo, Italy, July 2 2015
Talk (with prof. Guerino Mazzola) "Hypergestures in complex time: creative performance between symbolic and physical reality", MCM 2015 Conference, Queen Mary University of London, UK, June 24 2015
Talk "Complex Time in Music: connecting Symbolic and Physical Reality in Creative Performance", University of Palermo, Italy, May 27 2015
Talk "Complex Time in Music: connecting Symbolic and Physical Reality in Creative Performance", Music and Sound Studies Graduate Student Colloquium, University of Minnesota School of Music, Minneapolis, April 24 2015
Teaching-assistantship as Italian coach for Opera singers in "Le Nozze di Figaro", University of Minnesota School of Music, Minneapolis, Spring 2015
Teaching-assistantship for Contemporary Music Workshop, University of Minnesota School of Music, Minneapolis, Fall 2014
Stage-enseignement biennale dans la classe de Composition du prof. Marco Betta, Conservatoire de Musique “Vincenzo Bellini”, Palerme, 2009/2010, 2010/2011
Stage-enseignement biennale dans la class de Piano du prof. Renato Giarrizzo, Conservatoire de Musique “Vincenzo Bellini”, Palerme, 2008/2009, 2009/2010
Séminaire “Physique, mathématiques, Musique, Arts Plastiques: une liaison possible entre les differentes disciplines" dans le cadre des "Concerts-Laboratoire 2012", Institut Supérieur d’Etudes Musicales "Arturo Toscanini", Ribera (AG), 6-3-2012
Enseignement dans le cours de “La théorie, l’écoute, l’analyse, l’histoire de la musique au sein du projet De son, des gestes, des mots des femmes et des hommes, colonnes d’un pont au-dessous de la Méditerranée”, Liceo Classico Statale "G. Meli”, Palermo, 2010-2011, 2011-2012
Poster "Les Mathématiques peuvent transformer la Musique en Images et des Images en Musique ?" dans la manifestation Esperienza InSegna 2011, Polo didattico dell’Università degli Studi di Palermo, 19-28/2/2011
Conférence "Formes et fonctions mathématiques en tant que lien entre les arts visuels et la musique: une hypothèse de réversibilité partielle", 7-5-2009, Congrès National "Composizione Musica Architettura", Conservatoire de Musique “V. Bellini”, Faculté de Ingénierie, Faculté d’Architecture de l’Université de Palerme, 6/9 - 5 - 2009.