Pizzicada
Sep 24, 2023, 11:42 AM
"The sound piece Pizzicada takes on the, sometimes very loud, cicada sounds in the rainforest.
My idea was to put artificial cicadas into the sound of the natural biotope. The sounds of the "artificial cicadas" are samples of a prepared piano and are played as pizzicati and arpeggios. From the combination of the words pizzicato and cicada, the title of the track is born: Pizzicada.
It is a tribute to a surreal dream. Dreams of spaces that do not exist in the real world. Jumps into different dimensions. Sometimes a turn of the head in a dream is enough to find oneself in another place. Sometimes objects simply appear that raise big question marks. Pizzicades are "objects" or "insects" that are suddenly there. And then gone again."
Phong Nha national park reimagined by Peter Simon.
IMAGE: Thang Nguyen from Nottingham, United Kingdom, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
Part of the Music for Sleep project - for more information and to hear more sounds from the collection, visit https://citiesandmemory.com/music-for-sleep/
My idea was to put artificial cicadas into the sound of the natural biotope. The sounds of the "artificial cicadas" are samples of a prepared piano and are played as pizzicati and arpeggios. From the combination of the words pizzicato and cicada, the title of the track is born: Pizzicada.
It is a tribute to a surreal dream. Dreams of spaces that do not exist in the real world. Jumps into different dimensions. Sometimes a turn of the head in a dream is enough to find oneself in another place. Sometimes objects simply appear that raise big question marks. Pizzicades are "objects" or "insects" that are suddenly there. And then gone again."
Phong Nha national park reimagined by Peter Simon.
IMAGE: Thang Nguyen from Nottingham, United Kingdom, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
Part of the Music for Sleep project - for more information and to hear more sounds from the collection, visit https://citiesandmemory.com/music-for-sleep/