Professor Dr. Leonardo Boccia has his doctorate in scenic arts. He is an instrumentalist, composer, and a research professor in the Multi-disciplinary Graduate Program in Culture and Society and in the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Studies on University at the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA) in Brazil. He teaches in the Institute of Humanities, Arts and Science at UFBA and since 2006 has led the interdisciplinary research group ECUS-UFBA/CNPq. Since December 2010 he became a Mercator Visiting Professor at Jacobs University Bremen.  His research interests include sound and music in screen media; key audibles; sonorous media manipulations; culture-specific, transnational and global mass-screen-media strategies; virtual audiosphere and aesthetics, musical dramaturgy, musical theatre, hearing and listening cultures. © ECUS 2011