This piece transforms a personal sonic archive—a phone call with my late grandmother—into a resonant landscape of memory and loss. It weaves together recollections of her childhood in Brittany with her voice, singing Petra hoc’h eus kavet, a traditional Breton folk song passed down orally from her grandmother. The song, like the language it carries, has been fractured over generations—Breton, once spoken in our family, has been eroded. What remains is a heritage and a legacy partially lost.

Through processes of re-recording, cutting, fragmenting, and reassembling, her voice and the coastal soundscape are reimagined. Using sound design and editing techniques, this piece reconstitutes memory—creating a new narrative from what endures, what disappears, and what technology allows us to remember anew.

Matt Robin

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