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Valentina Marra - In the depths of (crabeater seal)

from Polar Sounds by Cities and Memory

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While I was listening to “the Crabeater call”, I imagined to see the animal in its own natural environment and I thought that it was very nice: this was the feeling of my inspiration, from here my composition was born.

It is divided into three parts: in the first one, I describe the environment where the Crabeater lives, in the second part I show my heartache for the current situation of polar climate, in the third one there is the ideal world where Crabeater should live.

In the first and third part, I divided “the water sound” from “the Crabeater call” using human voices to underline the human presence in the Antarctic, where it shouldn’t be. In the second part I transformed the call by a fader effect and I panned it from left to right side, so it became the base for cellos and violins that represent my pain towards the environmental disaster. The Cello is played by Marco Schiavone and the violin is played by me.

The third part represents the ideal world where Crabeater should live, under the starry sky of heaven, alone, surrounded by water and the sound of the wind.

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from Polar Sounds, released February 6, 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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