Stazione di Topolo(30 June-15 July 2012) is a sound festival taking place in a small village called Topolo, which is on the border between Italy and Slovenia. The region has a bit politically complicated and sad history for its ‘borderness’. I had chance to join my friend Signe Liden‘s Topolo visit, who had a fantastic presentation on Global Seed Valt there. And gratefully, I had two days of full recording and mixing, so I performed 16 mins of piece on 12th July. Later, I found that Topolo people named it ‘Postaja crossing’.
My piece is based on recordings of a extremely long metal wire, which is found at the entry way from the village to mountain. The wire was originally used to convey a pile of cutting woods from mountain to village, but now it lost its use. Partly due to its massive length, the wire’s natural resonances was simply amazing and as I wished, one night, there was a pouring rain with a series of lightening. So, I could record in a day and night time under the different weather condition. I also used a pulse oscillator to give the wire a different resonating force.
Hi,
is there a recording of this Topolò performance available?
Thanks.
hi, I haven’t received the recording of performance yet from the festival. but now, you can have a listen to touchradio here, which has recordings of my topolo works.
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Very nice. I have been to Topolo many times and recorded that incredible wire.
hi john, thanks for your comment. yes, the topolo wire was incredible indeed and I’ve never seen such a huge and frequent thunderings. Simply overwhelmed. I was really scared in the mountain that night but happy to get recordings in the end!