Sound piece, 14 min

Le dive: l’infanzia, i loro paesaggi (The Divas: Childhood, Their Landscapes) is a soundscape walk that draws its main inspiration from the places of origin of the three divas: Goro (Milva), a village located near the Po delta in Emilia Romagna; Cremona (Mina), a city in Lombardy; and Ligonchio (Iva Zanicchi) in Emilia Romagna, near the Tuscan-Emilian Apennine National Park.

This work reflects on how the sonic environments in which the three divas grew up may have subtly influenced their musical trajectories. Through research into soundscapes shaped by the morphology of their places of origin and melodies rooted in local oral traditions, the piece imagines sounds they may have encountered and internalized during childhood, including distorted archival recordings by ethnomusicologist Roberto Leydi. 

Alongside this imagined past, my present emerges through field recordings: footsteps, water, boats, voices, animal calls, urban and maritime sounds, all forming a disenchanted sonic journey in search of a sound capable of reconnecting the divas to childhood, memory, and origin.

Audio recording and editing: Aline d’Auria
Audio mix: Nicholas Weiss
Produced by: The Panther, the Eagle and the Tiger: Divas by CANALE MILVA
Tracks: La mi mamma la mi mamma la mi chiama, interpretated by Bettinelli Natalina, Bettinelli Luigina, Bettinelli Franca. Recorded by Roberto Leydi, 1975
© CENTRO DI DIALETTOLOGIA E DI ETNOGRAFIA, Bellinzona 
Fa la nanna bel bambino (Ninna nanna), Interpretated by Maria Binda. Recorded by Roberto Leydi, 1974.
© CENTRO DI DIALETTOLOGIA E DI ETNOGRAFIA, Bellinzona

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