Mauro Sambo. 5 clocks, 5 tracks, 1 museum

The project sees the Venetian artist confront and get in touch with the historical spaces and ancient timepiece collection Querini Stampalia in, as he himself says, "a new work that has to do with the story in some way, with time , with the memory. These watches, delicate instruments for measuring time, been almost free in time and survived wars and disasters, marked with their own ticking those wars and those disasters.
If somehow I could record the tolling of those dramatic hours, I wonder if they will sound slightly different from the current one; perhaps what they heard would have left traces in impressing sound a different emotional identity ... In fact, what I did with the sound of the clocks of the Querini is an approach very close to the structure of cinema and literature ... "
Mauro Sambo reported separately to the sounds of the five watches, the sound of your surroundings at every clock ticking, the glare of the ringer, the beats of hours ... He worked on those sounds, those maintained, manipulated, altered, filtered , reverberated again and again rendered "other sounds".
For each watch has matched a composer who worked in the city and in the period of its manufacture. He championship of short sentences, created rhythmic cells, built of loops, slowed and accelerated the time, modified, reassembled and "resonated" the sound of that watch with the sound of a composer trying to grant also the sound of the clock with the time difficult and dramatic history that saw them witnesses.

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