Cities And Memory

"The horn sounds like this" originates from a December 1966 reel tape recording featuring musicologist Jeremy Montague demonstrating various horns. The 30-minute document represents a specific moment in museological practice: a scholarly voice explaining before sounding, contextualising before experiencing.Rather than preserving the integrity of this material, Francesco Ganassin and Sergio Marchesini chose the path of creative betrayal. Montague's voice and the demonstrated horn sounds are subjected to a process of corruption that reveals hidden dimensions while obscuring others. The horn demonstrations bleed into one another, traveling through layers of digital memory that fail and distort. The narration fragments and becomes repetition and then texture. "The horn sounds like this" lives through sonic paradoxes. It is elementary as the sound production techniques of the horns themselves, urban as the background noise of a nocturnal city, minimal as a badly-tuned radio transmission, truculent as a piece hear