Sound design

09'48''

 

This ongoing project began with a memory. One day my parents forgot the keys to our summer house. In an attempt to retrieve them, I crawled backward through the kitchen window and, unaware of its presence, stepped on a broken plate on the counter. I remember watching myself bleed, and putting a band-aid on the wound. I reminisce this uncalculated bodily experience as a threshold: a new word deriving in a language.

 

That moment of confrontation lingered in silence and over time, resurfaced. My engagement with the memory intensified: what began as a fascination with its narrative and visual quality evolved to a psychological reading of its emotional weight, and deepened into an inquiry into the healing of personal-collective wounds. Here, wound is not only a mark of trauma but of potential meaning, and transformation. It is the presence of the past in the present.

 

This multidisciplinary project centers on storytelling—referred to, in my artistic practice, as memory telling. Each “Cut” of this memory telling practice revisits the same memory through alternative sensory and audiovisual perspectives. They are experiments in looking at fragmentation not as loss, but as texture. “Cut 3” focuses on the recollection of wound through sound and has been developed during a sound design course led by Tommaso Pandolfi. The research started with a visually weighted concern in making sense of space in graphic notation. Meanwhile the design process dealt with manipulating the linear narrative formula of storytelling through a play between personal recordings, online archives and interviews with people. What began as a personal memory got amplified by similar moments in other individuals timelines, weaving a reservoir of shared experiences.

 

“Wounds of a Memory” is shattered in its wholeness, or rather, a whole possible with its fractures: just like memory. It echoes from a central question: Where does the emotional truth of a memory lie?