Écouter Ixelles – Luisteren Elsene (Winter 2024)
My project “Écouter Ixelles – Luisteren Elsene” (“Listen to Ixelles”), has been selected in the context of the “Budget Participatif 2024” of Ixelles city.
The project aims to encourage social cohesion and living together, with the tools of listening and collective creation.
We shared recording sessions during three sound-walks exploring the commune, and we worked together during five sessions in order to create a collective soundscape of the city. We shared listening sessions, creative decisions and the editing and mixing process.
Here the three collective soundscape we produced:
thanks to all the participants, your presence has been heartwarming:
Alexandre Montandon, Arielle Goldschlager, Bruna Esperi, Camille Somers, Céline Rustin, Claudio Porru, Diana Duta, Edgar Van Den Bogaerde, Iola di Cara, Jade Lam, La bulle, Marie-France Maxime, Martine Nicolas, Martine Vandaele, Nicola Lancerotti, Nicolò Triacca, Nuno Cernadas, Piergiorgo Pirro, Quentin Massot, Sabin Bertrand, Thibaut Leu-Cauvin, Véronique Van den Kerckhove, Violeta Ricoy Roig, Yann Vivane.
Here the link to the flyer of the project
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Residency at Pigini’s factory (Summer 2024)
More info at this link.
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Cities and memories – Migration sounds (2024)
Migration Sounds is a collection of the sounds of human migration, in partnership with Oxford University’s Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS).
The database contains 120 sounds from 51 countries – and the personal stories behind them – and we (a group of sound artists) used sound to help reframe the conversation around human migration and present valuable new perspectives on the issue.
For each field recording you can listen to the original version and the one reimagined by the sound artist.
My personal contribution is “Natasha’s borscht”, in a sort of “Kitchen remix”, where I am imagining the kitchen as a universal meeting and sharing space, inspired by the intimate recording of Natasha and Maria.
Shared cooking is when distant worlds become close, when family trees and traditions remix and meet in front of a sink and a pan: recipes become a space for stories.
I decided to use only some relevant spoken exchanges, a lot of noises and textures of the cooking process, and Natasha’s contagious laughter.
I only used cut and paste, a lot of layering, panning, and a bit of reverb, to remix this kitchen story and immerse the listener into this space of possibilities.
Feel free to scroll through the database, be inspired by it, and reflect upon its theme!
Here an article on Wired Italia about the project for the Italian speakers.
The collection has also become an immersive installation at the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford.
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Forêt nom féminin (2021) is a piece in six movements inspired by the homonymous book by Jérôme de Vienne, published by ISTI MIRANT STELLA in 2021 and the website foretnomfeminin.hotglue.me, an ongoing conversation between Diana Duta and Jérôme de Vienne about translation, the infinite permutations of language, a less-than-human word, an errant narrative of many voices, above all a labyrinthine and obscure research method.
The process, following the six scores found on the website, is based on the collection of different elements and fragments (through field recording) and their recombination (through editing and mixing) in order to build a sense of landscape and a narrative which traverses it from within.
(click on the image below to go to the playlist)
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Leaving (2020)
I recorded the sound of my last night tram trip to Venice, after seven years of living in that city, and was fascinated by its singing melody, which slowly inspired some accordion work on top of it.
“Leaving”, as my departure from Venice, but also as “letting go”.
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al-te-ri-ta (2020)
Field recording and mixing real life sounds have been central also for the project al-te-ri-ta developed with Bruna Esperi (cultural manager and community mediator) for the collection “Ti do la mia parola” curated by Butik Collective.
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Secco Sistemi (2019)
Image is a very helpful inspiration. I have been commissioned by Secco Sistemi, a leading Italian brand in the production of integrated systems for doors, windows and shutters, to compose the soundtrack for three videos, giving me absolute artistic freedom.
The musical idea, produced with my trusted friend Maarten Stragier and our duo Promenade Sauvage, has been to depict the machine as a living entity, from its sleeping night, to the dawn, until the end of the day.