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Valentina Marra - Aphrodite's lullaby (Cyprus)

from Music for Sleep by Cities and Memory

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"I started with the name of the sound ""Aphrodite's Rock"", which inspired a story: at the beginning, there was nothingness, then Aphrodite emerges from the sea foam and establishes herself first as a woman (indicated by the harp sound) and then as a mother (represented by the piano). Thus, she sings her lullaby to her child until the nightfall. The entire story is accompanied by the wind, which I chose to symbolize through the sound of the Bansuri.

In the central section, I utilized the original sound, from her self-affirmation to the conclusion of the lullaby. Here, the sound transforms into the "sound of silence" and of night (I created that sound using a Noise Gate, Fuzz-Wah, and Delay).

At the inception, I employed granulation to modify the sound of Aphrodite's Rock and a Bendir for rhythmic elements.
The Celtic harp was performed by Angela Cosi, the Bansuri by Giorgia Santoro, the Bendir by Roberto Chiga and the piano by me."

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from Music for Sleep, released October 23, 2023

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Cities and Memory is one of the world’s biggest sound projects, a global, collaborative sound art and field recording programme with the aim of remixing the world, one sound at a time. It covers more than 100 countries and territories with 5,000+ sounds and more than 1,000 contributing artists.
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