A Century of Sounds is a collaboration between Cities & Memory, the Pitt Rivers Museum and Oxford University — 100 artists, 100 field recordings from a century of ethnographic sound collections, each reimagined into something new.
Our piece, Talea, is built around a field recording from the Republic of Congo. The title says everything about our approach: a talea is a cutting, genetically identical to its source, yet capable of growing into something entirely new when placed in different soil. Fidelity and transformation, at once.
Talea is included in the project’s highlight compilation, out now on Bandcamp. (https://citiesandmemory.bandcamp.com/album/a-century-of-sounds)
Musicians:
Francesco Ganassin: clarinet, electronics, dziga loop (custom made electronic instrument)
Enrico Milani: cello, objects
Sergio Marchesini: piano, electronics
Andrea Ruggeri: percussion, electronics
Gianluca Segato: lap steel guitar, electronics
Alberto Bebo Zuanon: double bass
Together we are Sonic Investigation Unit
