What sounds rock Venice at dawn? Listen to La Sérénissime waking up, passing next to the suitcases of tourists from all over the world, postmen, children on their way to school, in the footsteps of the young composer Riccardo Sellan.
Listen to the world in Venice
Invited by the Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Monica Fantini presents in Venice the sound installation ” Venezia – il suono che reste », a sound crossing of the city and the memories of its inhabitants, within the framework of the collective exhibition « Listening Post. Slab pratiche di ascolto alla sound art », at the Galleria di Piazza San Marco, 71/c, Venezia, from July 22 to September 10, 2023.
“ Venice – il suono che remained » is available in several formats and offers several listening options:
- On this page, each week of the summer, in fragments and echoing the exhibition, find episodes of “Listen to the world” devoted to Venice.
- In Venice, at the Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa – Galleria di Piazza San Marco, 71/c, from July 22 to September 10, 2023, for a spatialized and immersive listening in the gallery of the Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation, produced with Raphaël Cousseau from RFI Lab.
- Herein binaural version and in Italian, for immersive listening with headphones wherever you are.
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 us hear the cultures, languages and imaginations of the world through sounds from Africa, America, Asia, Europe or Oceania. Hundreds of programs can be listened to as a podcast on this page, while the participatory and evolving platform www.ecouterlemonde.net offers sound postcards and recordings. To date, 245 sound recordings are available for free access. Author and coordinator of “Listen to the world”, Monica Fantini listens to, records and composes sound pieces from everyday sounds: the slamming of Parisian metro gates, the harangues of vendors at the Bobo-Dioulasso market in Burkina Faso, the creaking of glaciers in Patagonia, rolling horse-drawn carriages in Dakar or the bells of Saint Mark’s Square at midnight in Venice… So many shards of life with which she weaves stories to tell the world, create links and share knowledge.
