Publications
Articles
2023. The Social Production of a Mallorcan Bagpipe: Collaboration, Technology, Ecology, and Internationalization. In Shaping Sound and Society, editor Stephen Cottrell. Routledge: 35-53
2023. Hidden bagpipes of the Met. In Perspectives. Metropolitan Museum of Art. www.metmuseum.org/perspectives
2023. Five illustrated bagpipes in “Musical instruments and their homes: An insight into the 19th-century instrument collector’s world. In Bibliolore. RILM. https://bibliolore.org/
2022. 'You are part of the club': negotiating the field as a musician-ethnomusicologist. In Ethnomusicology Forum.
2018. #NoBorders. Världens Band: creating and performing music across borders. In Sharing space? Sharing culture? Applied experiments in music-making across borders, the world of music (new series) 7 (2) , guest eds. Rachel Harris and Abigail Wood.
2018. 'The Secret of the Bagpipes: Controlling the Bag. Techniques, Skill and Musicality'. In Galpin Society Journal 7.
Co-authoured with Augustin Ernoult, Patricio de la Cuadra, Benoît Fabre and Ilya Franciosi.
Ernoult, Augustin, Benoit Fabre, Cassandre Balosso-Bardin, Ilya Franciosi and Patricio de la Cuadra. 2017. Music in a bag? Controlling the bag of Majorcan and Galician bagpipes. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 142, 1454-1465.
>>>Selected as Technical Area Pick of the year by the JASA musical acoustics technical committee leading to online promotion 3 months free online access.
2017. 'An interdisciplinary study of the 1832 conical Boehm flute: history, geometry, acoustics'. In Musique et Technique 7. Co-authored with Patricio de la Cuadra, Camille Vauthrin and Benoît Fabre. Le Mans: ITEMM. 11-24. Bilingual article published online. Introduction available here.
2017. 'A Short overview of the bagpipes from the Iberian Peninsula'. In Chanter 31 (2).
2016. 'Xeremiers de sa Calatrava, from heyday to unemployment: lives dedicated to the Mallorcan bagpipes'. In Yearbook for Traditional Music 48.
2016. 'A musician in the field: The productivity of performance as an intercultural research tool'. In P. Burnard, E. Mackinlay & K. Powell (Eds.), The Routledge international handbook of intercultural arts: 126-136. London: Routledge.
2016. 'Introduction organologique de la cornemuse'. In L'Education Musicale, Lettre d'information 108. Paris: Editions Beauschesne.2016. 'Oral transmission in French conservatoires: towards a hybrid learning strategy?'. In Journal of Vernacular Music Centre 1(2). https://journals.tdl.org/jovmc/index.php/jovmc/issue/view/2.
2013. 'The xeremies in Mallorca – an introduction'. In Piping Today Magazine, issue 66, Nov/Dec, Glasgow: National Piping Centre.
News articles and reports
2021. 'Denouncing free labour in the music industry'. In Discover 3. Lincoln: University of Lincoln. 26.
2015. 'International Bagpipe Conferences: looking back and looking forward'. In Piping Today Magazine, issue 76, Nov/Dec, Glasgow: National Piping Centre. 26-29.
2012. First international bagpipe conference. In O anuarario da gaita 27, Ourense: Escola provincial de gaitas da deputación de Ourense.
Encyclopedia Entries
2018. 'Bagpipes'. In Cambridge enyclopedia of historical performance in Music, eds, Colin Lawson and Robin Powell. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2018. 'Pipe and Tabor'. In Cambridge enyclopedia of historical performance in Music , eds, Colin Lawson and Robin Powell. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Book Review
2018. Reseña: Castelo-Branco, Salsa El-Shawan y Moreno Fernández, Susana. 2018. Music in Portugal and Spain: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture. In Cuadernos de ETNOmusicología, 11.
2023. The Social Production of a Mallorcan Bagpipe: Collaboration, Technology, Ecology, and Internationalization. In Shaping Sound and Society, editor Stephen Cottrell. Routledge: 35-53
2023. Hidden bagpipes of the Met. In Perspectives. Metropolitan Museum of Art. www.metmuseum.org/perspectives
2023. Five illustrated bagpipes in “Musical instruments and their homes: An insight into the 19th-century instrument collector’s world. In Bibliolore. RILM. https://bibliolore.org/
2022. 'You are part of the club': negotiating the field as a musician-ethnomusicologist. In Ethnomusicology Forum.
2018. #NoBorders. Världens Band: creating and performing music across borders. In Sharing space? Sharing culture? Applied experiments in music-making across borders, the world of music (new series) 7 (2) , guest eds. Rachel Harris and Abigail Wood.
2018. 'The Secret of the Bagpipes: Controlling the Bag. Techniques, Skill and Musicality'. In Galpin Society Journal 7.
Co-authoured with Augustin Ernoult, Patricio de la Cuadra, Benoît Fabre and Ilya Franciosi.
Ernoult, Augustin, Benoit Fabre, Cassandre Balosso-Bardin, Ilya Franciosi and Patricio de la Cuadra. 2017. Music in a bag? Controlling the bag of Majorcan and Galician bagpipes. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 142, 1454-1465.
>>>Selected as Technical Area Pick of the year by the JASA musical acoustics technical committee leading to online promotion 3 months free online access.
2017. 'An interdisciplinary study of the 1832 conical Boehm flute: history, geometry, acoustics'. In Musique et Technique 7. Co-authored with Patricio de la Cuadra, Camille Vauthrin and Benoît Fabre. Le Mans: ITEMM. 11-24. Bilingual article published online. Introduction available here.
2017. 'A Short overview of the bagpipes from the Iberian Peninsula'. In Chanter 31 (2).
2016. 'Xeremiers de sa Calatrava, from heyday to unemployment: lives dedicated to the Mallorcan bagpipes'. In Yearbook for Traditional Music 48.
2016. 'A musician in the field: The productivity of performance as an intercultural research tool'. In P. Burnard, E. Mackinlay & K. Powell (Eds.), The Routledge international handbook of intercultural arts: 126-136. London: Routledge.
2016. 'Introduction organologique de la cornemuse'. In L'Education Musicale, Lettre d'information 108. Paris: Editions Beauschesne.2016. 'Oral transmission in French conservatoires: towards a hybrid learning strategy?'. In Journal of Vernacular Music Centre 1(2). https://journals.tdl.org/jovmc/index.php/jovmc/issue/view/2.
2013. 'The xeremies in Mallorca – an introduction'. In Piping Today Magazine, issue 66, Nov/Dec, Glasgow: National Piping Centre.
News articles and reports
2021. 'Denouncing free labour in the music industry'. In Discover 3. Lincoln: University of Lincoln. 26.
2015. 'International Bagpipe Conferences: looking back and looking forward'. In Piping Today Magazine, issue 76, Nov/Dec, Glasgow: National Piping Centre. 26-29.
2012. First international bagpipe conference. In O anuarario da gaita 27, Ourense: Escola provincial de gaitas da deputación de Ourense.
Encyclopedia Entries
2018. 'Bagpipes'. In Cambridge enyclopedia of historical performance in Music, eds, Colin Lawson and Robin Powell. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2018. 'Pipe and Tabor'. In Cambridge enyclopedia of historical performance in Music , eds, Colin Lawson and Robin Powell. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Book Review
2018. Reseña: Castelo-Branco, Salsa El-Shawan y Moreno Fernández, Susana. 2018. Music in Portugal and Spain: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture. In Cuadernos de ETNOmusicología, 11.
Conference Proceedings
2016. 'Rethinking the Possibilities of a Notched Flute: The Case of the Quena'. In Making wooden musical instruments An integration of different forms of knowledge, eds, Marco A. Pérez and Sandie Le Conte. Conference Proceedings, 3rd Annual Conference COST FP1302 WoodMusICK, Museu de la Musica de Barcelona September 7-9, 2016. 149-154.
Co-authored with Patricio de la Cuadra, Camille Vauthrin and Benoît Fabre.
2016. 'The musical arm of the bagpipe player: a cultural and mechanical approach'. In EuroRegio2016, Conference proceedings from EuroRegio2016, Porto 13-15 2016.
Co-authored with Camille Vauthrin, Patricio de la Cuadra, Ilya Franciosi, Khalil Ben Mansour and Lise Ochej.
Camille Vauthrin, Cassandre Balosso-Bardin, Patricio de la Cuadra, Roosen flutes, Benoît Fabre. 2016. 'Collaborating with Acousticians, Musicologist & Flute Makers: Towards the Conception of a 19th Century Flute'. In Making wooden musical instruments An integration of different forms of knowledge, eds, Marco A. Pérez and Sandie Le Conte. Conference Proceedings, 3rd Annual Conference COST FP1302 WoodMusICK, Museu de la Musica de Barcelona September 7-9, 51-56.
Translation
Varela, Anton. 2017. 'My gaita journey - as a maker and player' in Chanter 31 (2): 25-29. Original text in Spanish/Original en castellano
2016. 'Rethinking the Possibilities of a Notched Flute: The Case of the Quena'. In Making wooden musical instruments An integration of different forms of knowledge, eds, Marco A. Pérez and Sandie Le Conte. Conference Proceedings, 3rd Annual Conference COST FP1302 WoodMusICK, Museu de la Musica de Barcelona September 7-9, 2016. 149-154.
Co-authored with Patricio de la Cuadra, Camille Vauthrin and Benoît Fabre.
2016. 'The musical arm of the bagpipe player: a cultural and mechanical approach'. In EuroRegio2016, Conference proceedings from EuroRegio2016, Porto 13-15 2016.
Co-authored with Camille Vauthrin, Patricio de la Cuadra, Ilya Franciosi, Khalil Ben Mansour and Lise Ochej.
Camille Vauthrin, Cassandre Balosso-Bardin, Patricio de la Cuadra, Roosen flutes, Benoît Fabre. 2016. 'Collaborating with Acousticians, Musicologist & Flute Makers: Towards the Conception of a 19th Century Flute'. In Making wooden musical instruments An integration of different forms of knowledge, eds, Marco A. Pérez and Sandie Le Conte. Conference Proceedings, 3rd Annual Conference COST FP1302 WoodMusICK, Museu de la Musica de Barcelona September 7-9, 51-56.
Translation
Varela, Anton. 2017. 'My gaita journey - as a maker and player' in Chanter 31 (2): 25-29. Original text in Spanish/Original en castellano