my impressions on this course

Courses can sometimes be real curses… I mean, during my school career it happened (and it’s still happening) that lessons are boring, teachers are real assholes and exams are hard and anxiogenous.

Well, with this course I felt at ease: I’ve just done what I like. Writing in English and let people know what my passions are. I love words and for the first time I’ve felt that somebody (maybe only the teacher, but a person is enough) was listening to me, or rather, reading my thoughts.

I’ve written two books and hardly my friends have read them. Prof. Iamarf has read them and this meant a lot to me. I felt my works were not just a solipsistic exercise…

Well, dear Andreas, I’ve understood that even if I hate being alive and can’t find many people taking care of my tortured soul, somebody on the net can understand what I feel.

Prof, a volte mi sono trovata lì lì per mandarle una mail sulle mie paturnie e i miei disastri familiari… poi mi sono trattenuta perché non era forse politically correct. Al di là di tutto, quello che più ho imparato non è stato tanto l’aprire un blog o capire delicious…. ma che forse vale la pena continuare a respirare… perché qualcuno che ti ascolta c’è…

thanx!

Reiew of a cd 13

PETRINGA

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This cd is like a traduction into music of the “esperanto”: different cultures and languages which mingle into a real thumbnail3musical Babele. There’s a lot of East culture in these 9 songs, especially in “Oasis” and in “Arabesque”. But also Southern United States’ jazz and mediterranean melodies. We are face to face with a complete fusion between free-jazz and arabic dances which play a lot with improvising and seduction. “Sweet Obsession” is the jewel of a well-played cd which is pleasant but too heavy in contents. The union itself of the music of the two opposite parts of the world has to be deeply understood before appreciating its originality. This cd goes beyond the multi-ethnical events and the jam sessions of musicians from all the world. Spontaneous and technical aspects together in a great new project. Wonderful clarinet: Gabriele Mirabassi.

Original Italian version on ROCKIT: http://www.rockit.it/album/9997/petringa-sabir

Review of a cd 12

ANDREA BUFFA

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These seven songs have only a great pro: they are played and sung with passion. With that spirit which is the characteristic of the musicians with a natural and genuine approach to their early music. This demo is not a perfect one, as the texts are ordinary and the melodies similar one to the other. It’s difficult to memorize the rhythms and the chorus lines which is not so good for a folk cd. “Ombre della città” is the best song but it could have been better if it had been only in dialect. There’s much work to do, but Andrea Buffa has got a good potential.

Original Italian version on ROCKIT: http://www.rockit.it/album/10065/andrea-buffa-in-effetti-cho-molto-da-ridere

Review of a cd 11

FRANCESCO LA BARBERA

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The titletrack: three beautiful moments given as a gift. Only guitars, contrabass and a light singing on the background. Being humming but not banal and taking away from jazz any élitarian patina: this is the aim Francesco La Barbera wants to follow along the whole cd. The second song, “Amberle” tells of a sweet awekening while “The ending summer” pushes you inside the frenzy of a day which alternates moments of peace and war. The jazz becomes a way to describe the daily life. But the fact that this genre goes into a more “pop” world, implies a very good techinque by Francesco. His fingers runs thirstly on the strings: pizzicatos, arpeggios, a lot of inversions… Behind the immediacy of these 11 songs there is a great work.
You cannot miss”Lady Margareth”, “Il giorno buono” and “Spring”, good end for this magnifique cd. Francesco La Barbera is simply phenomenal.

Original Italian version on ROCKIT: http://www.rockit.it/album/9638/francesco-la-barbera-le-isole-dellestate

Review of a CD 9

MED IN ITALI

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An ordinary name, a demo given almost brutely: a cd with a title written with a pen and a faded booklet, “home-made”. Horrible first impression. But when the stereo swallows the cd and hides its simplicistic aspect, the Med in Itali show an unexpected perfection. Precise harmonies, lyrics which are easily memorized and a wonderful voice. They mix rock and jazz in a new unidentified genre. It’s not manieristic swing and neither minimalistic blues. It’s not easy to define their music if with only one word: magnfique! We need more songs. The Med in Itali must give us a full album.

Original Italian article on ROCKIT: http://www.rockit.it/magazine/album.php?x=9532

Assignment 4

What I’ve noticed so far is that in Bologna’s faculty things were a little bit different…. I actually payed twice as much, but the facilities fo students were four times better. I mean, we had in our building in Forlì for the SSLMIT a laboratory with 50 computers. We had free access to all websites and the University made us access to all the websites of translation and interpretation reviews. As for medicines online reviews, these websites were not for free, but with our university rates we were allowed to read them without paying anything. For my own thesis I consulted thousands of articles for free thanks to the service provided by Bologna’s Alma Mater Studiorum. Now that I am in Florence, I’ve noticed how it is difficult to even have access to the faculty’s website… I mean, there’ s no such freedom in reading and discovering articles which can interest us. If I want to read an article from the simple website of “Il Corriere della Sera”, I have to pay and this service is not covered by the faculty itself. Such a shame… I’m speechless…

Intellectual Property

I think my downloadable books you can find on the right side of my blog talk for themselves.

I do approve the concept of free and open source, but I still have some doubts… I mean… I’m sure of the fact that ideas in the abstract and books, music (and even film documentary 🙂   )etc… in practice should be ABSOLUTELY FREE. But at the same time, I don’t know if this is ECONOMICALLY POSSIBLE. I would like to become a singer and I really would like to give everybody my music for free, but if I do this, how will I earn a living? The same for my knack for writing. At the moment I’m writing CD reviews just for art’s sake. I’m working as a translator in order to pay the university rates…

Well, what I’m afraid of is that the professions of writer, musician or movie-maker could even disappear. Everybody will be able to write, sing or direct a movie, but only for pleasure and not as a job…

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I’m really in two minds….

Here it is a nice comics my Prof. suggested us:

http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/comics/digital.php

what’s writing in the web for me

If you know me just a little bit, you know that I love words. Their sound but especially how they can touch you, both if they’re uttered and if they’re written. I’ve even written two books, but they rest completely asleep in my hardware. Unpublished. Nobody wants to publish if you’re not famous. And, obviously, you cannot become famous if nobody publishes you.

I’d like to transform my passion for writing into a job, but it is impossible. I’ve resigned to the idea that  I won’t make a living with my novels. But internet gives me the chance to make my works widespread. I’ll put my two books here in this blog. You will be able to download them in a pdf format and I’d really like to know what you think about them. I want at least to have my dream partially come true. I want others to read what I write. In this sense, I’m fully aware the web is so powerful.
I hope you’ll be more careful than publishing houses…