Padova World Music Orchestra (PWMO) is an open, free project of music and intercultural exchange, funded by public and private contributions.
The world’s musics are passed down orally, slipping past styles, genres and borders: they are rivers that look still on a map, but we feel them move once we dive in. Every musician carries their own roots and puts them at the service of collective creativity, letting them be interpreted, translated, transformed into the shape of the orchestra.
Cities and Memoryis one of the world’s biggest sound projects, a global, collaborative sound art and field recording programme with the aim of remixing the world, one sound at a time. It covers more than 100 countries and territories with 5,000+ sounds and more than 1,000 contributing artists. Thousands of field recordings, recomposed and reimagined by artists around the world.
Sounds of the Year 2024 is the eighth annual Sounds of the Year compilation, which collects together some of the highlights of the hundreds of compositions submitted to Cities and Memory over the course of 2024.
These reimagined compositions cover everything from a night in an Indonesian cemetery and dawn breaking over a Bosnian village to prayers in London’s Westminster Abbey and Mongolian reindeer bells. The artistic approaches used to recompose the recordings are no less diverse, with heartfelt torch songs, spoken word, orchestral epics and bubbling ambient electronics.
Together with Francesco Ganassin I worked on a field recording of a taxi ride in Dushanbe, Tajikistan.
Deciding how to re-compose this soundscape, meant to us choosing which flow we would give a sound to. Should we sit in the car or definetely step outside of it?
We finally stayed on the reflective side of the journey, enriching a flux of thoughts, developing the suggestions of a singing voice with clarinets, recorders, percussions, synth basses and a divergent pulsating granulator.
I am very happy that Taxi Dreams is among the 15 tracks selected for the compilation!
I arranged a song that Erica created in a workshop with elementary school girls and boys, they have written all the lyrics, voicing their legitimate concern about the state of the planet., I hope that as adults they will do better than us. We had a lot of fun recording them and asking them to do their best animal calls 😀
A new record published by Squilibri and Club Tenco pays tribute to Gianni Siviero, a songwriter that between 1972 and 1976 worked with the likes of Nicola Piovani and Dario Fo.
Different italian artists from different generations cover one song each, and I arranged Erica Boschiero version of “La Nuvola”
