Cities And Memory

The field recording from India immediately revealed itself to me as a form of male ritual music, rooted in repetition, gesture, and collective memory. From that first encounter, the piece began to take shape as an inner journey: a passage through listening, silence, and transformation.The opening unfolds in a dreamlike, immersive space, imagined as a temple. Here, sound becomes a threshold. Together with Spanish sound artist Sara Broto, I shaped — through my flute — a dialogue around one of her poems, almost a prayer, where voice and breath trace a return to origins, to something ancient and essential. This meditative atmosphere gradually evolves into an evocative Indian mantra by Alessia Ronge, acting as a bridge between contemplation and embodiment.The mantra is then carried forward by the fluid, almost aquatic textures of Antonio Aiello’s double bass, alongside the synthesizer work and mixing by Giuseppe Lacinskij Schillaci. Through a slow and carefully sculpted crescendo, these elements open the way to t