Sacred sounds, sacred spaces: the Occidental Mediterranean

Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

• Dr. José Luis Carles (Interfacultative Music Department): Composer and ecologist. Doctor in Biological Sciences (UAM). Director/presenter with Cristina Palmese of the program “La casa del sonido” (2002-, Classical Radio-RTVE). Author of soundtracks for cinema, Director of the International Congress on Sound and Audiovisual Spaces (6 ed.), Director of the Ibero-American Meetings on Soundscapes (4 ed.). Awards such as Research Grant (César Manrique Foundation), Bancaixa Foundation Award, Avanca Cinema-Portugal, First Prize at the 33rd International Electroacoustic Music Competition of Bourges 2006 Quadrivium Section...
• Dr. Luis Calero Lecturer in Greek Philology (Department of Classics): PhD in Studies of the Ancient World by UAM and UCM, Bachelor of Classics by UAM, and Bachelor or Arts (Singing and Piano, Royal Conservatoire of Music of Madrid). His main research areas are (1) Music and Scenic Arts in Ancient Mediterranean and (2) Paths of Musical and Literary transmission between the Ancient Asian Reigns and the Archaic Greece. He also researches on ancient music in the Iberian Peninsula
• PDIF Alejandro Rodríguez Antolín (Interfacultative Music Department): Extraordinary Prize of the Degree in History and Science of Music and Music Technology (UAM). Master and PhD in Artistic, Literary and Cultural Studies, specializing in Music and Performing Arts. FPU contract (University Teacher Training), working in the Interfaculty Department of Music at the UAM. Specialized in music, technologies and Digital Humanities, interested in interdisciplinary and multimedia creation in relation to electroacoustic music and sound art, as well as computer music.

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

• Professor Anastasia Georgaki (Music Technology): Professor in Music Technology and Head of the Music Department, head of the Laboratory of Music Acoustics and Technology of the NKUA, PhD in Music and Musicology of the XXth century ( emphasis on music technology), Bachelor of Physics, and diplomas in music (Accordeon and Piano, Hellenic Conservatory of Athens).
• Assistant Professor Areti Andreopoulou (Music Technology): Assistant Professor in Music Technology (NKUA). Bachelor’s degree in Music Studies from the Department of Studies, NKUA (2005) and a Master’s (2008) and a PhD degree (2014) in Music Technology from New York University. She conducts research as a member of the Laboratory of Music Acoustics and Technology (LabMAT) NKUA. Her fields of interest include but are not limited to 3D and spatial audio, the design and evaluation of immersive auditory environments, auditory displays, multimodal interactions, data sonification, acoustics, and audio signal processing

University of Tübingen

• Prof. Dr. Stefan Morent, Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Musicology: Studied musicology and computer science in Tübingen, recorder and historical performance practice in Trossingen, music of the Middle Ages with Andrea von Ramm and Sterling Jones. He received his PhD with "Studies on the Influence of Instrumental on Vocal Music in the Middle Ages" and his Habilitation with "The Middle Ages in the 19th Century. A Contribution to the History of Composing in France" in Tübingen. He is project leader of a research project on medieval music fragments from Württemberg monasteries funded by the German Research Foundation and speaker of the Exploration Full Fund "Sacred Sound".

University of Glasgow

• Prof. Nick Fells: Professor of Sonic Practice at the University of Glasgow, composer, performer and sound artist. His research centres on creative and experimental approaches to sound, particularly the use of computer-mediated sound in performance and in electronic and audiovisual art-works. His work combines field and source recording, improvisation and other forms of live performance, computer-based sound processing and sound spatialisation. He has been a very active artist and performer all over the world.
• Dr Iain Findlay-Walsh, Lecturer in Music: Lecturer at the University of Glasgow, an experimental music producer, composer and researcher whose work combines field recording and studio production with autoethnographic methods to research personal listening. His practice research explores aural and spatial perception, music reception, virtuality and selfhood. Outputs include sound installations, multichannel audio works, text scores, and spatial audio pieces for stereo headphones. Scholarly research engages with auditory reception and perception, first-person field recording, spatiality and virtuality in record production, sonic and textual autoethnography, and sound-based research methodologies.

Université Hassan II Casablanca

• Leila Maziane, Head of Department of Histoire et Civilisations: Professor of modern history at the Hassan II University of Casablanca. She is also a member of the Executive Committee of the International Society of Mediterranean Historians and of the International Network on "The Governance of Atlantic Ports (14th to 20th centuries)". In addition to maritime and port history and heritage, his research topics are mobility. He has participated in numerous publications and projects of different sizes, all of them related to mobility and socio-cultural issues.

Other

• Cristina Palmese, Paisaje sensorial Office Lab: Architect from the University of Naples. Specialist in Urban and Architectural design. PhD in Architecture from ETSAM, researcher, audiovisual artist. Lecture in Universidad Europea de Madrid . Director of the studio Paisaje Sensorial Office-lab. Her activity is developed in interdisciplinary fields interweaving theoretical, applied and creative research work. She is currently working on Project Soundscape of Paisaje de la Luz Madrid . She has participated in international research projects such as Metabody, Playing the space and ResonArt. Curator of the Semana del Sonido Madrid and of programme La Casa del Sonido, Radio Clásica RTVE
• Ricardo Atienza, Konstfack, University of Arts, Crafts and Design of Stockholm: Researcher, Sound Artist, PhD Architect. Senior lecturer in Sound Art at Konstfack (Stockholm, Sweden). Research leader for the Art Department. A focus on the situated experience of place, on the multiple embodied, social, sensorial and sensible interactions established with and within our daily environments. Sound, as a qualified experience of place becomes here a main explorative tool and material for approaching the complexity of our everyday spaces and situations.
• Hassab Sanaa, Musée Universitaire de Ben M'sik, Casablanca: Specialist in urban studies and the relation between the north of Morocco and the south of Spain (Late-Roman period)