Postdoctoral Fellows
Siel Agugliaro
University of PisaI am a music and cultural historian whose research explores the intersections of music, sound, and identity across national and transnational contexts, with a particular focus on Italy and the United States. My work examines how musical practices shape and reflect issues of social difference, representation, and cultural exchange, centering on Italian opera and its institutions, performers, and audiences. I am especially interested in how Italian opera participates in broader cultural and political dynamics, including the negotiation of social hierarchies and the representation of marginalized communities. I also study film music, investigating soundtrack production processes and the ways digital technologies influence current compositional and archival practices.
Guglielmo Bottin
University of BolognaMy research interests include the history of popular music, electronic dance music, sonic hauntology, horror and giallo film scores, and the use of music in contemporary art. After graduating with a thesis on the psychology of film music, I worked as a composer and producer. My music has been used in international feature films. This has given me experience with publishing and copyrights. During my Ph.D. in Musicology at the University of Milan, I was a visiting researcher at the Institute for Music and Media Studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin, where I worked on groove and machine-based rhythms.
Giuliano Danieli
University of MilanI am a musicologist whose research explores the intersections between music, sound, and media across modern and contemporary culture, through approaches that merge multimodal analysis, archival inquiry, ethnography, and production studies. My recent work has examined the remediation of folk music in Italian cinema, the construction of discourses about identity, history, and memory in composer biopics, the presence of opera on social media and in the digital sphere, and – within the context of the FiLMUSP project – the processes and networks underpinning the production of soundtracks in Italian post-war film. I coordinate the international research group "Musical Lives on Screen".
Martin Nicastro
University of PaviaI am a music studies scholar with a specialization in computational and data-driven methodologies. I am interested in how data visualization techniques such as network analysis and digital mapping can open new pathways in historical research and in the dissemination of its results. I focus primarily on Italian musical culture in the second half of the twentieth century, with an emphasis on urban production ecosystems. I have developed interactive web-based applications for research institutions across Europe, enabling real-time exploration of historical and contemporary data on music practices. Within the FILMUSP project, I contributed to the production and structuring of large-scale data and designed an interactive platform for visualizing production networks over time.
Daniele Peraro
University of BolognaI am a musicologist interested in the reception of the American musicals in Italy between the 1950s and the 1980s, their translations, adaptations, and emulations. My work highlights different facets of Italian society at the time, how these musicals spoke to Italians and about Italians, and what this all means more than a half century later. My academic interests also include film music and stage and film musicals, with a particular focus on the relationship between audio and video aspects in various media as well as the intermedial dimensions of the musical genre.
