This article presents the results of collaboration between a composer and researchers in the context of vocal roughness and composing for voice. Our research focused on parametric control of distortion. Specifically, we present a software device that supports the manipulation and control of vocal roughness in real time, using a method based on amplitude modulation and filtering. The compositional interest in working with classically trained opera singers and with vocal distortion led us to initiate research in the signal-processing domain. Our goal was to develop a tool that could facilitate the production of distorted sounds without direct effort on the part of the singer. In this way, the singer can perform a nondistorted or lightly distorted sound, and the software tool will generate or magnify the distortion in real time.

This chapter explores how Pacific islanders have the desire to be present and acknowledged within the global system. The first part provides an overview of colonial imperialism in the region. Decades of colonial and economic imperialism have capitalized the natural and human resources influencing the course of social change in the region. In all the colonies of the Pacific, plantations and mines have had a strong impact on the islands including the expropriation of lands, the arrival of foreign workers, and in general all the long-term ecological consequences. The second part of the chapter focusses on the ways conflict over markets, trade routes, the supply of labour, and control over strategic commodities might be progressively halted. Looking at the contextual particularities of economic imperialism in the Pacific Islands allow us to analyse the various forms through which the global economic system is articulated in a specific local context, focusing on the different ways in which social actors resist, transform, and domesticate the hegemonic elements coming from outside. Capitalism, in particular mining activity, is not necessarily perceived by indigenous peoples as an antagonistic by definition, as often emerges in mainstream Western environmental discourse. For some communities it is a means to achieve economic, social, and cultural goals. Analysing mining activity from the lens of indigenous eco-cosmologies, the goal is to identify an alternative space to the rigid dichotomy between subjection and resistance.

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A battery in a rock». So goes the slogan of Nautilus Minerals, one of the companies currently most active in the deep-sea mining (DSM) sector. Today, the extraction of minerals from the seabed is increasingly seen as the new frontier in the push to transition to a «low-carbon economy» that requires larger quantities of metals. The mainstream narrative behind what is broadly termed "just transition" is that technology will save the world 2 . As Donna Haraway argues this apocalyptic mood is characterized by a «cosmic faith in restorative technology» (Haraway 2020: 16). In the search for solutions to mitigate climate change, the demands of capitalist societies go unchallenged; on the contrary, even more resources are being invested in the quest for advanced technologies, with a view to maintaining the existing system under a greener guise. As some scholars have proposed, «just transition could provide another platform for corporate "tournaments of virtue" where companies compete to profile their "good deeds"» (Bainton et al. 2021: 627). Not surprisingly, DSM is touted by national governments and corporations as more environmentally and socially sustainable than "land-based" extraction. 2 'On board' deep-sea mining. An ocean-based perspective Archivio antropologico mediterraneo, Anno XXV, n. 24 (2) | 2022 'On board' deep-sea mining. An ocean-based perspective Archivio antropologico mediterraneo, Anno XXV, n. 24 (2) | 2022 'On board' deep-sea mining. An ocean-based perspective Archivio antropologico mediterraneo, Anno XXV, n. 24 (2) | 2022