Sound's Seeds
in the autumn of power
martino nicoletti, © 2006
The Project
The Sound’s seeds project – created by Dr. Martino Nicoletti, national coordinator of the anthropological section of the Ev-K²-CNR Association Committee, with the collaboration of Roberto Passuti, musician and sound engineer – focuses on the collection of a series of Asiatic ritual music and songs, through a strict selection of cultural contexts in which, even today, music is considered to have a specific sacred nature and a peculiar magic power.
It provides a deeper glance at those traditions where music is deemed to have the unusual capacity of reaching and sounding the very depths of the invisible world.
Sound as an arrow, a harpoon. An arrow aimed at the origin of things, in the direction of those creative vibrations which, at the very beginning, gave birth to the universe. A harpoon giving direct access to sources of hidden power, which provides man with the opportunity to manipulate them for his own benefit or to facilitate transformations of his own consciousness.
The project, based essentially on digital recording of music in the field, is integrated by intense work on texts and ample visual support.
Indeed, the project purposes to publish a short series of music CDs, each with a pocket book supplement, in the form of a travel notebook, in which information about context and culture, experiences, meetings, the visual and visionary strength of selected images and the sharp power of the sound melt together to create a simple, many-facetted and – above all – living work.
This work, produced in collaboration with the label Amiata Records, is largely addressed to those who, beyond any mere interest in ethnic music, sincerely desire to taste – through a multiplicity of voices and languages – the atmosphere, the beauty and poetry of hidden faraway worlds, a desire to approach different cultures, far from any stereotype, in an attempt to understand their complexity, their evolution, their contradictions and their infinite variety.