Musical Creation upon walkings on a city from North and the pandemic cut-off

A compositional experience in the city of Berlin among the Covid-19 quarentine.

Abstract

The text describes the creation of a musical piece for voice, field recorded sounds and electronic sounds based on walkings for sound captions on the city of Berlin, Germany. The original project intended to reflect on the social and cultural inequalities enclosed by a global city, i.e, with strong migratory presence, by the co-existence of people originated from the most diverse countries of the Global South. The main research question was how the diversity manifests as sound on the streets. However, the author has been taken by the pandemic, which prevent the whole of his captions but has created a strong oneiric activity, which has been absorbed by the piece. This activity has mirrored and has imposed on the previously material captured on the streets, being showed by the inclusion, on the piece, of excerpts from dream narratives and of the tale A Terceira Margem do Rio, by Guimarães Rosa, which had similarities with the author's linguistic and social isolation – which will also be approached by the text. Compositional strategies for the integration of textual contents and the rough sound material will also be presented.