Gardening
Soundtrack
(2000)
by Crop (Claudio Sinatti, video; Sergio Messina: Sound)
Gardening from Claudio Sinatti on Vimeo.
This is by far the best thing I did with Claudio Sinatti,
who sadly
passed away in 2014. Gardening was a video he made with
Photoshop, to which he asked me to put some sound to. I jumped at the
chance: it’s not just a great video (made by a great videomaker), but
it’s based on an idea which is very attractive to me: enhanced digital
landscapes. I devised a multi-layered digital drone, to this day one of
my favorite drone pieces of mine. The video was presented as a
four-walls installation, and the drone (mixed in radical stereo)
floated between two speakers placed diagonally in the far corners of
the room. The effect was glorious. Many years later, the whole
thing still makes perfect sense, and showcases Claudio’s mastery of
video making, as well as my passion for one note music (thanks
to Andrea Lissoni).
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