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about
***ATTENTION: to be listened on headphones only***
This audio-documentary was recorded live by Saturnalia Collective member Luca Mucci (AKA Piezo) during the 2018 edition of Saturnalia festival. That year the collective had been experimenting with a new format, structuring the festival as a 30-hour continuous experience rather than scattering it throughout several days.
Mucci tasked himself with documenting the whole thing, using a particular technique of field recording (in-ear binaural microphones) to parallel the immersive gestalt of the festival itself.
His own body, his own ears and perceptions functioned as a probe, setting the equipment to capture an auditory image of the events as similar as possible to the one ensnared by his own hearing.
Morning to morning, recording every bit and piece while traversing the festival, wandering through Macao’s halls and through the motley compound of sounds that make Saturnalia up, with the constant, ever-throbbing presence of bass frequencies to remind of the festival’s peddling to desiring bodies.
Even though what’s being presented here is but an edit of the complete recording, it’s been compiled in chronological order, with glitches, bass distortion, footsteps, conversations and “intimate” bits left in as integral elements of the work.
This “realist” approach calls for an equally deep listening experience: this work is strictly to be heard through headphones, possibly in an environment devoid of other sensory stimuli.
This audio-documentary is a testament to the individuality of experience, but also, much like Saturnalia itself, to the will to share it as directly as possible.
To include others into our own crossing of reality and turn it into a constructive force.
lyrics
We are releasing this while our country, as well as most of the world, is on lockdown because of the Covid-19 disease.
With this year’s Saturnalia consequentially being cancelled, we offer this recording as a reminder of what has been, and to startle an imagination of what we can make the future be.
credits
released April 27, 2020
Recorded, edited and mixed by Luca Mucci
Equipment: Roland CS-10EM Binaural Microphones / Headphones
Artwork by Martina Ferrari
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