Rione reimagined
Sep 25, 2020, 10:50 AM
Rione Monti reimagined by Emiliano Venanzini.
"Based on a recording taken in Rione Monti, Rome. The raw recording is divided in 3 moments, in the first we can hear cars, birds and people working (hammering far): though there are some city sounds it has somehow a calm atmosphere. Second moment consists mostly in different people talking various problems in a very crowded square (piazza degli zingari), and some tourists too. The third moment starts again with working noises (a saw) but becomes quickly more calm (getting far from the crowded square) till a moment near the end in which there is almost absolute silence, before it gets broken by a car passing far and a flock of seagulls cawing.
"Seagulls are an important ecological change in Rome: they started establishing there in the last 15-20 years, looking for food and finding trash in the bins, or sometimes eating pidgeons.
"I made a musical composition trying to emphasize the 3 "moods" of the raw recording, but keeping 2 fundamental elements (main pad and synth delayed chords) all the same all across the composition, while other elements start and change in different points; so in the beginning music is more quiet, in the middle is a bit more more anxious and in the end returns quiet but not as in the beginning.
"The composition is made from 8 sounds: the recording (and some sample from that), 3 drum pieces (kick, snare, hihat) a pad, 2 different synths and a piano."
Part of the Future Cities project - find out more at https://www.citiesandmemory.com/future-cities
"Based on a recording taken in Rione Monti, Rome. The raw recording is divided in 3 moments, in the first we can hear cars, birds and people working (hammering far): though there are some city sounds it has somehow a calm atmosphere. Second moment consists mostly in different people talking various problems in a very crowded square (piazza degli zingari), and some tourists too. The third moment starts again with working noises (a saw) but becomes quickly more calm (getting far from the crowded square) till a moment near the end in which there is almost absolute silence, before it gets broken by a car passing far and a flock of seagulls cawing.
"Seagulls are an important ecological change in Rome: they started establishing there in the last 15-20 years, looking for food and finding trash in the bins, or sometimes eating pidgeons.
"I made a musical composition trying to emphasize the 3 "moods" of the raw recording, but keeping 2 fundamental elements (main pad and synth delayed chords) all the same all across the composition, while other elements start and change in different points; so in the beginning music is more quiet, in the middle is a bit more more anxious and in the end returns quiet but not as in the beginning.
"The composition is made from 8 sounds: the recording (and some sample from that), 3 drum pieces (kick, snare, hihat) a pad, 2 different synths and a piano."
Part of the Future Cities project - find out more at https://www.citiesandmemory.com/future-cities