They Call You (Venice)

Part of the Sacred Spaces project - find out more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/sacredspaces

Reimagined by Nicolas Vermeulin.

"The starting file is a soundtrack of a monastery in Venice, the bells ring and we hear tourists. What attracted me in this sound is the dry aspect, this is “antinomic” because the city is on a humid zone. I started on the idea that bells animate a sacred machinery. Venice being close to the myths of submerged cities like Herbauges and Ys. One can hear in my sonorous proposal, woods crack, machinery as well as a kind of big bubble of soft air bouncing. The bells sound as they can alert. The words of the end slam to buckle on the dry theme of the starting file and on the sacred myth where whatever they could hear, none of them should turn around: "They call you"."