What remains of everything we hear, what do we not forget? Why learn by heart? What if having unforgettable pieces in your head was a choice, a possibility of accessing your past as you wish? Where are our sound memories nestled? Flutist Federica Lotti evokes her memory of the body and the heart.
Performer and interpreter of a vast classical and contemporary repertoire, the flautist Federica Lotti has played as a soloist with orchestras around the world: at the La Fenice Theater in Venice, at the Center Pompidou in Paris, at the Chopin Academy in Warsaw, and again in Oslo, Texas, Tokyo… Professor at the Benedetto Marcello Conservatory of Venice, she is also the initiator of numerous cultural projects linked to the city’s most important institutions. She is also dedicated to the dissemination of the work of Lorenzo Da Ponte and puts her musical creativity at the service of projects that deal with ethical, ecological and intercultural themes.
Excerpt by heart from this episode: Concert KV 299 for flute, harp and piano by Mozart.
Series ” BY HEART » wishes to provoke reflections and create creations around the sound memories and oral cultures of the world. What words, poems, lullabies, slogans, songs… do we remember by heart? What sounds struck us, are we able to imitate orally? Seemingly unimportant, these fragments that we keep deep within us and know how to recite with our own voice, constitute living archives of what we remember, voluntarily or not, from our world as, and above all, from that of others.
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By heart – The absurd – Listen to the world (rfi.fr)
By heart – Mémoire Palace – Listen to the world (rfi.fr)
By heart – The poem in Greek – Listen to the world (rfi.fr)
By heart – The mystery – Listen to the world (rfi.fr)
Listen to the world
Both a radio program broadcast every Sunday in several RFI news newspapers and a participatory platform, Listen to the world lets you hear the cultures, languages and imaginations of the world through sounds from Africa, America, Asia, Europe and Oceania. Hundreds of shows can be listened to as podcasts on this page, while the participatory and evolving platform www.ecouterlemonde.net offers sound postcards and recordings. To date, 245 sound recordings are freely available.
Author and coordinator ofListen to the worldMonica Fantini listens, records and composes sound pieces based on everyday sounds: the slamming of Parisian metro gates, the harangues of sellers at the Bobo-Dioulasso market in Burkina Faso, the cracking of glaciers in Patagonia, the rolling of Dakar carriages and even bells of Saint Mark’s Square at midnight in Venice… So many bursts of life with which she weaves stories to tell the world, create links and share knowledge.
Production team
Interview, editing, mixing: Monica Fantini
Sound recording: Raphaël Cousseau – RFI Labo
Mixing assistance: Laurence Allanic and Pascal Boungo – Creation Unit
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