-  Creation of a Cross-Cultural Network around the Popular Music Repertoires

EARPIECE has established a network aimed to:

1) study, collect, analyze and compare the artistic production of existing music repertoires,
through the search, classification and fruition of the involved regions’ music archive;
2) create a new and unpublished shared and transboundary repertoire;
3) promote new interregional music compositions.

The project’s main results achieved are:
1) the creation of a cross-border and shared artistic production;
2) a good quality music production with brand-new contents;
3) the exhibitions of artistic productions, allowing the cultural development of local societies;
4) a neuroscientific analysis in order to detect a universal ability to detect not only culture-
specific evidences linked to music samples but also cross-cultural evidences, linked basic
emotion perceptions.
Creative cross border production enhanced the creation of a cross border network in cultural
and creative fields, improving also the business sector linked to culture and tourism. This
established network has already presented a new project proposal to capitalize and deepen
the excellent work done during Earpiece project.

Project Specific Objectives (fully achieved) are:

1) Historical evidence and new music archive:
The research carried out was related to the acquisition of a historical repertoire of great
importance and to a survey of new compositions of high cultural content. The study of
these sources has allowed a relevant recognition of the various forms in use in various
cultural and social contexts in the various nations involved in the project. Among the
elements of particular interest we mention the acquisition of important musical funds such
as the Abbate Fund very important for the development of cultured music of popular
derivation in the second half of the twentieth century. This fund as others implemented
music scores are very important for deepen the study of the development of cultured
music of popular derivation in the second half of the twentieth century Also relevant was
the commission for writing new music to reproduce in current times the identical social
impact of the popular and cultured in the various reciprocal repertoire influences.

2) Artistic and creative production activities:
In relation to this point, the various institutions involved have designed and created a wide
range of events, conferences, concerts. In these contexts the direct knowledge of music,
compositions and historical and musicological themes transversal between the various
territories involved in the project was deepened. The definition of the contents of the
various events by all the partners was particularly taken care of precisely to enhance the
peculiarities of the repertoires of the various territories but at the same time to foster the
idea of a cross cultural bridge. The participation in the events, in particular for the Three
Nations Festival, of experts and performers from the various territories and the choice of
transnational repertoires has further expanded the sense of community on the project.
3) Neuroscientific analysis applied to the popular and repertoires music:

A Dashboard available at: https://earpiece.dhitech.it/ has been fully implemented. Data
elaborated from the neuroscientific analysis are available through interactive graphs which
enable to discover the reactions of testers listening the specific music chosen. Data
obtained from the surveys administered to the testers were rendered from a visual point
of view through infographs, which can be more explanatory than simple numbers and
graphs. In order to facilitate consultation of the same, also in this case a support video
guide has been created, which describes the sections of the platform and the use of the
dashboard.

Link to the dashboard: https://earpiece.dhitech.it
Video on YouTube about dashboard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgoC8PUB0Gs
Link to Earpiece Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/earpieceproject/