Francesco Michi - Sound Reportage (2003)

01) Sound Reportage n. 01

02) Sound Reportage n. 05

03) Sound Reportage n. 07

04) Sound Reportage n. 08

05) Sound Reportage n. 10

06) Sound Reportage n. 13

07) Sound Reportage n. 15

08) Sound Reportage n. 16

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"From a technical point of view the Sound Reportage are timed recordings, made on an endless cassette, using a cassette recorder without the erasing head. Various recordings (little fragments of the existing sound material) overlap in a quite random way; if the sounds that was recorded before are enough loud and have a distinct presence, they'll inform with themselves the recordings that will overlap them. The dominant frequencies and the characteristic of the sounds themselves and of the various acoustic environments will be reinforced and will become more and more manifest; rhythmic elements, if they are very frequent, will be magnified or overlapped, creating new patterns.
Sound Reportages are really researches about the soundscape of certain environments, but I like to think on them also as reflections about our own memory, in which any new experience can magnify or fade or erase the memories and the traces of the ones that came before." Francesco Michi