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Emiliano Battistini is a musician, sound artist, teacher and researcher from Rimini. Since 2011 he has been working in the field of soundscapes nationally and internationally with solo and collective projects, offering concerts, site-specific installations and workshops.
I Cento Suoni audiowalk is both a work and an artistic action that, through sound art, intends to combine landscape and literature. Specifically, the work is inspired by the short novel "The Hundred Birds" by Tonino Guerra (1974) and consists of an electroacoustic composition that includes at least three compositional levels:
a) the voices of the main characters;
b) the songs of ethno-musicological origin mentioned in the book and specially created music;
c) the sounds of the environment.
The third level is particularly pertinent in that the book's protagonist is a "sound collector" and uses the practice of ambient recording (or field recording) to reconstruct his own identity memory, both of his person and of his home village, an Apennine hamlet destroyed by the earthquake.
The artistic action, proposed to the public, is to listen to such a sound work by walking inside a village, proposing an "augmented" sound walk (soundwalk), thanks to audio headphones (thus an "audio walk") to be held along the course of the experience, which is both personal and group. In fact, the sound work, in addition to the narrative content, contains information and prescriptions addressed to the walker-listener, who will finally find himself at the same meeting point with others, with the request to finally take off the headphones and listen, in silence and community, to the surrounding landscape. In this way, "The Hundred Sounds" is not only a possible sound translation of a literary work, it is not only an artistic work on the theme of personal and collective memory of places and their traumas, such as the one represented by the earthquake, but it finally relates to acoustic ecology, in the sense of using sound as a means of becoming aware of oneself and the territory one inhabits.
Co-produced by the Ultimo Punto Cultural Association and the Tonino Guerra Association, the work made its debut at "Artisti in Piazza" 2023, in collaboration with the Microcosmi review of the Sasso Simone and Simoncello Interregional Park, and then took place in its following replicas in different earthquake-affected villages, towns and cities in Italy, as a cultural action that contributes to not losing the memory of such places and their communities.
Concept: Emiliano Battistini, Enrico Partisani, Giovanna Priarione
Direction, sound design, music: Emiliano Battistini
Narration voice: Massimo Nicolini
Voice guide: Elisa Angelini
Voice gestures: Emanuel Aureli
Voice recording: Roberto Pozzi (De Opera Studio)
Technical consultancy: Chiara Ligi
Path consulting: Roberto Sartor
Organizational aid: Chiara Caporicci
Photos: Abele Gasparini
Special thanks to Andrea Guerra, Alessandro Aiello (Canecapovolto) and the volunteers who made the premiere of the work possible: Federico Bruscia, Ines Cavuoti, Clarissa Chiocca, Elena Demaria, Serena Fantini, Giulia Filz, Andrea Massimo Murari, Lorenzo Scarmin, Daniele Spaccasassi.
SHOW WITH LIMITED CAPACITY: reservation at Info Point.
NOT SUITABLE FOR PEOPLE WITH MOBILITY DIFFICULTIES.
NOT SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF 14.
