GEOGRAFIA
SONORA
— 2005/2006
Sound installation, Fabbrica Europa Festival 2006, Florence (I).
Project conceived by Michele Tadini and curated by the Centro Tempo Reale (center specifically dedicated to the research, development and use of new technologies in music, founded by Luciano Berio in 1987), in collaboration with ARPAT (Regional Agency for the environmental protection of Tuscany).
Geografia sonora was born as a workshop about soundscapes. A selected group of partecipants (included me) experimented with material recorded in different parts of the city by using audio manipulation and editing software, based on graphic interfaces. The software was created for the project by Tempo Reale (center specifically dedicated to the research, development and use of new technologies in music, founded by Luciano Berio in 1987).
Working on the recordings collected while exploring the city’s soundscapes we realized a sound installation for Fabbrica Europa Festival.
Selected works that fascinated me while I was thinking about this project:
— Raymond Murray Schafer, The Tuning of the World, New York, Knopf, 1977.
— Guy Debord, Introduction to a Critique of Urban Geography, translated by Ken Knabb in Situationist International Anthology, Berkeley, Bureau of Public Secrets, 2006 (Original edition: Introduction à une critique de la géographie urbaine, originally appeared in the Belgian surrealist journal Les Lèvres Nues, n.6, September 1955).