Across fiction and reality, Aisha’s Diary narrates the story of one of the 500 people who lost their lives with the shipwrecked of Lampedusa the night of the 3rd of October 2013.
Aisha being a fiction character represents the reality of many women who didn’t survive the catastrophe. The voice of Aisha, calm and resigned is the one of her mind, through Aisha’s interior monologue, her stream of consciousness, my aim is to express and narrate to the public hopes and dreams of people that almost everyday try to find escape on the shore of the Italian island but very often find death and oblivion.
Aisha’s Diary, is an experimental audio drama. The music is not intended just as soundtrack but it is a main aspect of the narrative, it marks the time, Aisha’s emotional state and the changes in the landscape; the four different tracks are, indeed intended as sound landscapes. The environmental sounds are original sounds related to the actual incident extrapolated from video documentation already existing on the web. 

 Nadia Perrotta

Aisha’s Diary
audio drama
2013
duration: 30 min
Narrative by Nadia Perrotta
Music and Sounds by Gianni Iannitto
Aisha’s Voice by Maegan Newbury

Aisha S Diary

Aisha S Diary (revised)

I have been working on my graphic novel Murphy's Adventures for a while. Murphy's Adventure is a musical graphic novel composed together with young people during the two years of lockdown and Pandemic. 

With the help of artist and musician Dana Tasker I am creating a performance of music storytelling.

The song Stuck in a Dream was written, during lockdown, by one of my art students, Reinhold 13. Reinhold sent me the first verse and the first 30 seconds of the music. Then he asked me to complete it. It is about the way he felt during that very hard time. But I also think it resonates a lot with Murphy' story. So with Reinhold's permission this song is now the intro to our musical narrative. 

The track here on SoundCloud is the short version. To listen to the whole track follow the YouTube link below
https://youtu.be/8J8eb6DdCDQ




Stuck in a Dream (short version)

This song was composed few weeks ago by my daughter Abigail Twumasi for my new film "Un Paese Innocente (An Innocent Country)", right now in production...

That Feeling

Music and Words of the soundtrack of my new film "Un Paese Innocente"

Abi Twumasi - That Feeling.MP3

"Swinging On A Tree"
Abi.t ft chinxonthebeat

This is a D&D (draw and dance) music piece for creative educational activities.
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Instagram @nadia.perrotta
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Facebook @solonadia 
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Swinging On a Tree

Loop created by me during the workshop for Sonic Journeys.
Sonic Journeys is a project directed by the musician and composer Tania Williams, commissioned by Sound UK

watch the video at this link 
https://youtu.be/oHENBowts5g

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