Sound Ecologies

Since January 2024, I have been conducting a sound mapping experiment, starting from three cities I know: Milan, Rome and Athens. This was the simple methodology:
1- Select a significant location for a city, a place of collision between different interests and groups.
2- Explore the area through sound, moving with headphones and directional/environmental microphones. (i.e. a Zoom H4 and Sennheiser MKE 600 )
3- Find a spot and record for 30 minutes. Stay still and silent near the microphone. Take notes on sound sources you can identify on-site.
4- Re-listened in studio, eliminate errors or corrupted sounds, complete information about the sound sources detected.
This practice led to the development of a site specific installation at the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Rome, that you can listen here: a recording of the sounds in the park surrounding of the museum (villa Borghese), edited and made more realistic for the human ear.