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Five reading paths depending on who is reading, the questions I receive most often, and a search that answers with passages from the site.
Each path is a sequence of four stops, from the most useful to the most specific.
Qualifications, publications and works.
Research lines, method and citable artefacts.
Staff training and classroom tools on artificial intelligence.
Sound paths, participatory archives and a case in operation.
The tools of the courses, to open in the browser.
Short answers, with the link to the page that documents them.
I teach Ear Training for Sound Technique at the G.B. Martini Conservatory in Bologna and Sound Space Design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Macerata. Completed appointments, at the Academy of Fine Arts in Catania, at UNIMORE and at the University of Florence, are on the Profile page.
She Lies Down Like a Woolen Thread, a 9'26" acousmatic composition, can be heard in full on the Works page. Terra Viva, Very Beautiful and Ficana 1891 open in the browser.
In the Publications section and in the ORCID profile 0009-0003-4718-3633. The Soundscape Annotation working paper has the DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20282495, the From Text to Sound contribution the DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20719806, both on Zenodo under CC BY 4.0. The Aula IA handbook has the ISBN 979-8-170042-78-4, the essay Air Piece the ISBN 978 0244 56039 3.
The soundscape-audio-analysis toolkit and the Soundscape Annotation Atelier PWA are open source on GitHub, under Apache 2.0 for the code. The documentation of the toolkit and the controlled vocabulary of the Atelier are under CC BY 4.0. The project page gathers the links.
The apps in the catalogue are Progressive Web Apps. They open from a link in the browser, install in one tap, and many also work offline. They work without an account, and annotations, recordings and progress stay on the device.
Yes. I lead training programmes on artificial intelligence for school staff, as an AIFIA-qualified trainer under Italian Law 4/2013. Eight programmes are listed on MePA, the Italian public procurement marketplace, and the dedicated page gives head teachers and purchasing offices the steps for the award.
Yes. I design sound paths and digital archives for museums, ecomuseums and villages. They are visit web apps that install from the browser, also work offline and remain the property of the institution. The case in operation is Ficana 1891, with the Villa Ficana Ecomuseum, Associazione OZ, the Municipality of Macerata and the Marche Region.
I collaborated with UNIMORE within the PNRR ITSERR project, as a scientific collaborator, and with the University of Florence within the PNRR Orienta-Menti project, as a guidance expert. Terra Viva was selected through the ESA - University of Rome Tor Vergata call and performed at the ESA conference at the ESA-ESRIN site in Frascati, with the Master in Sonic Arts. Ficana 1891 was born with the Villa Ficana Ecomuseum, Associazione OZ, the Municipality of Macerata and the Marche Region.
The full CV is available on request, with a message to mail@francescomariano.art.
With a message to mail@francescomariano.art. I reply in person.
The search answers with passages from the site, word for word, and with the link to the page. It runs in the browser, on an index of the published texts.
The question becomes a list of keywords, each passage of the index gets a BM25 score on the words found, and the top five appear above, two per section at most. The text of the passage counts in full, the section title a little over half, and the answers to the frequent questions come first. The whole computation runs in the browser, and every sentence shown is copied from the site.