In the depths of
Jan 13, 2023, 12:44 PM
"While I was listening to “the Crabeater call”, I imagined to see the animal in its own natural environment and I thought that it was very nice: this was the feeling of my inspiration, from here my composition was born.
"It is divided into three parts: in the first one, I describe the environment where the Crabeater lives, in the second part I show my heartache for the current situation of polar climate, in the third one there is the ideal world where Crabeater should live.
In the first and third part, I divided “the water sound” from “the Crabeater call” using human voices to underline the human presence in the Antarctic, where it shouldn’t be. In the second part I transformed the call by a fader effect and I panned it from left to right side, so it became the base for cellos and violins that represent my pain towards the environmental disaster. The Cello is played by Marco Schiavone and the violin is played by me.
"The third part represents the ideal world where Crabeater should live, under the starry sky of heaven, alone, surrounded by water and the sound of the wind."
Crabeater seal reimagined by Valentina Marra.
Part of the Polar Sounds project, a collaboration between Cities and Memory, the Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity (HIFMB) and the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI). Explore the project in full at http://citiesandmemory.com/polar-sounds.
"It is divided into three parts: in the first one, I describe the environment where the Crabeater lives, in the second part I show my heartache for the current situation of polar climate, in the third one there is the ideal world where Crabeater should live.
In the first and third part, I divided “the water sound” from “the Crabeater call” using human voices to underline the human presence in the Antarctic, where it shouldn’t be. In the second part I transformed the call by a fader effect and I panned it from left to right side, so it became the base for cellos and violins that represent my pain towards the environmental disaster. The Cello is played by Marco Schiavone and the violin is played by me.
"The third part represents the ideal world where Crabeater should live, under the starry sky of heaven, alone, surrounded by water and the sound of the wind."
Crabeater seal reimagined by Valentina Marra.
Part of the Polar Sounds project, a collaboration between Cities and Memory, the Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity (HIFMB) and the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI). Explore the project in full at http://citiesandmemory.com/polar-sounds.