Marcello Messina

Marcello Messina is a Sicilian composer and academic working as Chief Researcher at Southern Federal University (SFEDU). He holds a Ph.D. in composition from the University of Leeds (UK), and is also holding honorary positions as Visiting Professor at the Federal Universities of Paraíba and Acre. He has been the recipient of the Endeavour Research Fellowship at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, and of the PNPD/Capes post-doctoral bursary at the Universidade Federal do Acre, Brazil.

Publications

The Internet of Musical Stuff: Towards an Aesthetically Pliable Musical Internet
The Internet of Musical Stuff: Towards an Aesthetically Pliable Musical Internet
Marcello Messina, Ariane de Souza Stolfi, Luzilei Aliel, Ivan Simurra, Damián Keller. © 2024. 19 pages.
A recent initiative within ubimus research contemplates the development of an internet of musical stuff (IoMuSt) as a concept that interacts with and expands the pre-existing...
A Cronulla si Junceru: Remembering Racial Violence Through Text-Based Musical Composition
A Cronulla si Junceru: Remembering Racial Violence Through Text-Based Musical Composition
Marcello Messina. © 2024. 19 pages.
This chapter documents and discusses the musical piece titled A Cronulla si junceru, based on a text written in Sicilian, that narrates the events of the Cronulla riot. The...
The Southernification of the Pandemic in Italy: Images of the South, Fears of Contamination, and the First Wave of COVID-19 in Italy
The Southernification of the Pandemic in Italy: Images of the South, Fears of Contamination, and the First Wave of COVID-19 in Italy
Marcello Messina. © 2023. 24 pages.
Starting from February 2020, Italy was the first among the European countries, to experience dramatic rises in daily COVID-19 deaths and contagions. An important aspect that...
Settler Colonialism and the Capricious Seizure of Unwanted Land, or How the Huni Kuin were Expelled From Plácido de Castro, Acre, Brazil
Settler Colonialism and the Capricious Seizure of Unwanted Land, or How the Huni Kuin were Expelled From Plácido de Castro, Acre, Brazil
Marcello Messina, Jairo de Araújo Souza. © 2021. 12 pages.
Situated in the Mesoregion of the Acre River, Plácido de Castro is a small municipality in the Brazilian state of Acre. In 2015, with the consent of the authorities, a group of...