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Atlantis (MANIFATTURA TABACCHI)
16–06–2020 / 31-07-2020
Atlantis is a project on the new soundscape that emerged during the first lockdown of the COVID-19 pandemic. The composition was created for Living Room by NAM - Not A Museum, and commissioned by Manifattura Tabacchi (Florence). Atlantis represents the emergence of a new sonic landscape that interacts with architectures and their inhabitants. It is an Atlantis revealed as the sea of "decibels" that once submerged it recedes.
Inside, we are surprised by echoes, reverberations, and distortions of strings, winds, and choirs.
Distant echoes bounce off the walls, swell into the void of large, desolate rooms, or echo in endless fields where there is no one to absorb their power, nor any colorful frequencies to affect them.
In this landscape, rules, relationships, and meanings shift as if to reveal the fragility of an illusion that, once breached, returns the void's profile it gives shape to.

NAM (Not A Museum), Firenze, Italy

Curated by Caterina Taurelli Salimbeni e Mara Pizzinini.

Photo credit: Giovanni Savi.

original soundtrack

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NAM catalogue