Maria Mannone describes the links between her professional backgrounds as physicist, musician, composer, conductor, and how it inspired her to define links between proportions found in nature, and mathematics toward music and the visual arts. This includes projects exploring sonification, a method to render data audible, in the medical domain.

Maria Mannone is a theoretical physicist and composer. She gained her MSc in Theoretical Physics and three masters in Piano, Composition and Orchestral Conducting in Italy, her Master 2 ATIAM at IRCAM-UPMC Paris VI Sorbonne, and her Ph.D. in Composition in the US, at the University of Minnesota. Her interdisciplinary research deals with music, mathematics, and forms of nature. She invented the “CubeHarmonic”, a new musical instrument based on the Rubik’s cube. She is currently postdoctoral researcher at the University of Palermo and “subject expert” at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. Her most recent books are “Mathematics, Nature, Art” and “Simmetrie fra Matematica e Musica” (Palermo University Press).

Links to her work

– A Fight for Light: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PS1iLgSieyo
– Gondola in musica: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vS5nIvrr_pI&t=2s
– Musiche per una scena di Buster Keaton: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqPT32eY8vI&t=2s
– Improvvisazione libera: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OClm1pn7-g
– Improvvisazione su paesaggio sonoro: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMldYLbfIRE