giovedì 7 aprile 2011

Silvia and her 13 cats

An old lady Silvia spends her days outside her flat in Piazza Pozzamaura. Also her 13 cats like to lie and dream in the springlike sun. Silvia is talking to them. All the cats come quickly back home when they hear the sound of the cardboard package of crokattini, dried cat food.


One of the the cats

 
                                                                                                               Picture by Noora Vikman

Sound preferences of the pupils of scuola media

Claudio Lagomarsini presents the idea and the Five Village Soundscapes and Acoustic Environmets in Change projects in Cembra´s scuola media. He also translates the guidelines of the sound preference test in Italian, when the Finnish AEC researchers introduce the test in English. However, it is difficult to prevent the lively Italian children from co-operating when writing their answers. The classroom is bubbling with excitement. Soundscape is a collective creation in many senses!


Two listening walkers from scuola media listening their own recordings in 2004

 
                                                                                                             Picture by Noora Vikman

Lavanderia in Cembra

As well as a place to clean the football uniforms of the youngsters from Cembra and nearby villages, the laundry is a social meeting place for the women –just as the wells had been before. Many women popped in just to chat awhile with Luigina. It is mazing how many ciaos one living above the lavanderia could hear during a day.
 
     Sounds of the lavanderia downstairs could be heard well from this window


 
                                                                                                                Picture by Noora Vikman

Forest work with Giorgio

Steep hills make the forest work here a little harsh. The practice is to hang the logs on a metal cable and send them down to the valley. This device makes a fantastic solo instrument!

                                A break in the middle of working in the forest

   

                                                                                   Picture by Noora Vikman

In the forest hut

One Sunday afternoon in autumn 1999 Franco’s baita is full of friends. Between drinking their homemade wine and eating castanas and raw minced meat, the whole group sings polyphonic songs from their huge repertoire. A dog is barking outside, madly hunting a little lizard.

                             Eating well is also part of the Sunday in baita
 

 
                                                                                                                      Picture by Noora Vikman

Sawing and cutting wood

The sound of woodworking dominates the open mountainous space on a windless spring day. Traditional ways of cutting wood belong to the mountain life. The owner of the baita, Mario, shows how to do it properly – first with the saw and then with an axe – even if it is Sunday.


The scenery hides many forest huts. They are called "baita". Sounds of the woodwork can be heard far. 
     
    Il paesaggio nasconde molte baite. I suoni dei lavori nel bosco si possono sentire     da lontan.


 
                                                                                                                        Picture by Noora Vikman

Precipio of Cembra

Antonio Nardon has been working on a huge Nativity scene since 1970. He has built thousands of details and moving parts, with dolls and creatures in several different scenes. Nardon still prepares them from nuts and pieces of wood found in the forest. He voluntarily shows his life work to visitors. Music is an essential part of the atmosphere of this mechanized miniature world.


Creatures of the forest in the crib of craftsman Antonio Nardon.
                 Creature del bosco nel presepe dell’artigiano Antonio Nardon.


 
                                                                                                                          Picture by Noora Vikman

In the panaderia

 Every morning the neighborhood around Cembra bakery wakes up to the smell of bread. The routines in the little bakery begin early. People come to buy their fresh breakfast, lunch and dinner bread following a regular rhythm. Like children, different kinds of white bread have various names. Chiabatta makes a beautiful rustling sound when exposed to cooler air after a short, hot time in the oven. Machines work with the dough in the back room.

 
Missing the Finnish rye flour: The lady from the bakery asked to bake Carelian pastry in Cembra.
Senza farina di segala popolare en Finlandia: La donna del panificio ha chiesto di fare pasticcio di Carelia a Cembra.
 
 
                                                                                                                Picture by Noora Vikman