We started in 2016 with sound pieces using field recordings in podcasts for a Bucharest sound ecology: the exploration/recording/transformation/transmission of urban intimate memories. Older pieces here, do just that! Newer sound submissions though, make us want to leave the city and the documentary, get lost in illusion/fiction/drama, based just as well in field recording: forms that stimulate stories that transmit that listening state. Of course, it’s just radio, our only medium to theorize and practice listening for space & story, remotely!
https://semisilent.ro
Anna
Adaptation novel, voice Anna, direction : Sonia Pastecchia
Composition and sound design : Charo Calvo
Produced by ACSR Brussels and FACR, Wallonie Bruxelles
She lives with her violent man in a gas station situated in a provincial road. It is a summer day. As usual she cooks and cleans and listen to her husband small talk and to the cars passing by. In the mean time, her thoughts take flight out of that painful routine, a way of surviving. . By the time a storm breaks, she does not feel anymore the difference between reality and fantasy, till her husband
punch to the face brings her back to normal.