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Mediterranean Musicologist
About Nina Ramos
In a sun-bleached archive in Almería, Nina Ramos spent three winters transcribing field recordings of Romani women’s lullabies from the Sierra de los Filabres, songs passed down orally for over 200 years, nearly erased by urban migration and language shift. Her breakthrough came not from notation alone, but from reverse-engineering rhythmic micro-timing patterns using spectral analysis of hand-clap cadences, revealing how Andalusian soleá and Tunisian mizan al-gharnati share a common pulse architecture rooted in medieval Iberian zīj astronomical tables. She co-founded the Tarifa Sound Mapping Project, deploying low-cost hydrophones to capture submerged olive-press rhythms in coastal cisterns and correlating them with Berber tbel drumming motifs. Her work refuses the 'folkloric preservation' model, instead treating Mediterranean music as a living syntax, where a Sardinian launeddas reed pattern might echo a Maltese għana vocal inflection not through diffusion, but through parallel adaptation to shared acoustic environments: limestone caves, narrow alley acoustics, sea-wind resonance.
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