{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":"In the arms of weirs","description":"\"The field recording and the satellite timelapse I chose speak of hydro-power, energy and discontinuity, they tell the story of a voice fragmented, amplified and impeded.\nThere is magic and mystery in the life of these ancient water-beings. Is a river a portal? Is the myth still alive?\n\n\"Artist and researcher Elizabeth Gallon Drosde introduces us to the submerged at the beginning of the composition. Rivers are story tellers, they are memory. If we deep listen, we might commune with ghosts and tune our bodies to their whispers, we might become a vibration.\n\n\"The sound of wind accompanying this first part and the end of the piece is played on violin by violinist Ida Di Vita (Quartetto Indaco). A long whistle, the primordial element of air swirling and hissing.\n\n\"Later on I join the flow and embody the river, its deep ancestral sound. My poem and my pitched voice in English are there to remind us of the history of this more-than-human being, its force and path, its hunger.\n\n\"Mystery and magic, and the Lech rivers in reverse. I proceed in Italian overlapping my reversed voice. I get hungrier and hungrier and I go deeper and deeper, till pressure slows down, till noise recedes.\n\nComposition:\noriginal field recording by Riccardo Fumagalli\nwind sound by violinist Ida di Vita (Quartetto Indaco)\nintro poem 'In the interstices of river-portals' by Elizabeth Gallon Drosde\nEnglish/Italian poem 'In the Arms of Weirs' by Ilaria Boffa\nSound effects, mixing and production by Ilaria Boffa\n\nPoem, In the Arms of Weirs\n\n'Deep-voiced white noise\nprogression of pressure\nspinning of shhh, turmoil.\nIt’s all you can feel in the fall.\n\nIt’s good to be at service\nto move downwards and collect\nto come a long way across\nthe Pleistocene moraines\n\nthe edge of Alps and gravel fields\nto accumulate in the arms of weirs.\nBut I’ve seen algae disappear\nunder the law of no fish pass.\n\nI get hungrier and hungrier\nI go deeper and deeper\nas to search for the Styx\nas to swear by her water.\n\nWay less than a good mother\nmy spawning grounds in degradation\nmy current impeded, my voice\nbroken, a life to gauge.\n\nFlow continuity hiccups\nwith drawn-out hisses and roars\nit self-renders into a different language\nit loosens and rivers in reverse.'\n\nPoem, Is a River a Portal?\n\n'Living between languages, between the here and there\nlearning to become fluvial,\nfinding shores to breathe on,\nmore than a beginning or an end.\n\nThe portal, the waters, dams.\nTo remember with water is to submerge in the threshold —\nthis is how the river becomes a practice, a way of moving,\na framework for transitions\nin the interstices,\nLinking us to the collective,\nto the territories that lie beyond, deeper.\n\nListening to the waters between the here and there,\nbecomes a space for what resists being said,\na gesture of attention,\nwhere meaning slips through,\nwithout words.\n\nCommuning with the ghosts\nrivers always testify,\nare storytellers\nthis means tuning our bodies to their whispers\na hum, a vibration, an interference.'\n\nSection of the river Lech reimagined by Ilaria Boffa.\n\n-------\n\nFlow is a creative exploration telling the story of a river through the power of sound. The project is a collaboration between the University of Padova and the University of Würzburg, with support from Cities and Memory. Explore the full project at https://citiesandmemory.com/flow.","author_name":"Cities and Memory - remixing the world","author_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/2138625-cities-and-memory-remixing-the-world","provider_name":"Audioboom","provider_url":"https://audioboom.com","width":480,"height":95,"thumbnail_url":"https://audioboom.com/i/43627001/600x600/c","thumbnail_width":600,"thumbnail_height":600,"html":""}