Dario Calderone

108 Days

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“This body, O son of Kuntī, is called the field, and one who knows this body is called the knower of the field.”

Bhagavad Gītā 13-1

How many things can we include in our listening? Are the remembered sounds part of it? Can we also include in our listening sounds that we have not heard yet? Can we listen to all that together at the same time? If we look deeply into this precise moment can we also listen to all the dimensions that it contains, in the past (through our emotions) and in the future (through our intuition)?

108 days is the result of a process which has lasted that amount of days. Between May and July 2024, I have been listening and recording different soundscapes, wherever I was, whenever I wanted, for a lapse of time between 8 and 20 minutes. When uploading these Field Recordings to the DAW I have placed them respecting the exact hour, minute and second of the day in which they were recorded, so that many points of the timeline would eventually playback overlapped  memories of diffenend sound-spaces. From this big Field, I have trimmed the portion corresponding to the exact time in which the performance takes place, so that the moment in which the track is played back, it overlaps remembered sounds of the same linear time but on different days. The doublebass creates connections between the individual sounds, after having illuminated them exclusively. The doublebass is like “the knower of the field”, able to navigate back and forward in the timeline, with memories and anticipations: it connects to the past and its emotions, and to the future and its intuition. Ultimately it brings to a global awareness of the different sound-spaces, playing with them and suggesting a global harmony, or tuning at least, in which the threshold between mechanical, environmental, human and animal sounds is blurred.

108 Days was commissioned by the Orgelpark in Amsterdam and conceived for a public performanceper on the 16th of november 2024 in combination with the projection of “20240802”, the video-art of the great friend Thomas Mohr.