ANTS RECORDS

"From a technical point of view the Sound Reportage are

timed recordings, made on an endless cassette, using a

cassette recorder without the erasing head. Various

recordings (little fragments of the existing sound material)

overlap in a quite random way; if the sounds that was

recorded before are enough loud and have a distinct

presence, they'll inform with themselves the recordings that

will overlap them. The dominant frequencies and the

characteristic of the sounds themselves and of the various

acoustic environments will be reinforced and will become

more and more manifest; rhythmic elements, if they are very

frequent, will be magnified or overlapped, creating new

patterns.

Sound Reportages are really researches about the

soundscape of certain environments, but I like to think on

them also as reflections about our own memory, in which any

new experience can magnify or fade or erase the memories

and the traces of the ones that came before." Francesco

Michi

Enhanced CD, readable on any CD player - for the Audio

section - and on any computer - both PC and Apple - for the

Multimedia section. The Multimedia, in PDF format, is legible

with Adobe Acrobat and includes a printable booklet and all

the links to the web where other Sound Reportages are

available.

track list

1) Sound Reportage n. 1 12'00"

2) Sound Reportage n. 5 12'00"

3) Sound Reportage n. 7 03'00"

4) Sound Reportage n. 8 06'00"

5) Sound Reportage n. 10 12'00"

6) Sound Reportage n. 13 12'00"

7) Sound Reportage n. 15 06'00"

8) Sound Reportage n. 16 12'00"

released 27/04/2003