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"It was late January when I got the call. I’m asked to bring my sound art to a
collaborative ecology and design project,
Song of the Cricket, for the Venice
Biennale of Architecture. When such as invitation arrives, you have no choice
but to jump in.
I see an image of the site for the project: the Gaggiandre at the Arsenale – a
medieval shipyard that serviced the Venetian military at its imperial peak.
Once a resplendent hive of industry, it is even detailed by Dante Alighieri in
The Divine Comedy:
As in the arsenal of the Venetians,
all winter long a stew of sticky pitch
boils up to patch their sick and tattered ships
that cannot sail (instead of voyaging,
some build new keels, some tow and tar the ribs
of hulls worn out by too much journeying;
some hammer at the prow, some at the stern,
and some make oars, and some braid ropes and cords;
one mends the jib, another, the mainsail)
The Gaggiandre is a cavernous, church-like space flanked by stone colonnades,
wooden roof beams, and situated, in true Venetian style, on a bed of water.
With long reverberation times, music in this space would need to be slowly
unfolding, drawing the listener in and inviting them to meditate.
It is a place of reflection, both metaphorically and physically. To a sound
artist, creating for the Gaggiandre is a dream."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
