Sample from Canale Audio - sound installation by IsolaNorzi and Enrico Ascoli at Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice

In this sample a strong wind move the little boats linked to the "briccole" on the canal borders. You can listen underwater the vibration of the wind through the wooden poles and the squeaky noise of the stretch of moorings  

"Canale Audio" - Windy day on the canal

Sample from Canale Audio - sound installation by IsolaNorzi and Enrico Ascoli at Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice

Close to  Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa there is a little bridge. In some hours of the day the tourists passage is so intense that you can ear underwater the vibration of their steps reflected by the stone borders of the canal.

"Canale Audio" - tourist steps on a little bridge

Sample from Canale Audio - sound installation by IsolaNorzi and Enrico Ascoli at Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice

At 100 mt from Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa there is a  master shipwright's workshop. Here you can listen underwater him repairing a typical venetian wooden boat.

"Canale Audio" - a master shipwright repairing a boat

Sample from Canale Audio - sound installation by IsolaNorzi and Enrico Ascoli at Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice

"Canale Audio" - Rainy day on the canal

"Canale Audio" - Church bells and an outboard motor of a boat

Sample from Canale Audio - sound installation by IsolaNorzi and Enrico Ascoli at Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice

from time to time a silent gondola glides



"Canale Audio" - passage of a gondola


"Canale Audio" is a sound installation by the italian artists Hilario Isola, Matteo Norzi and Enrico Ascoli at Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation (Venice). It brings the unknown sound scape of the other face of Venice, the one submerged, inside the museum, revealing an unexpected urban life, if not impossible to explore with the ear.
"Canale Audio" is part of the exhibition entitled ‘A Ballad of the Flooded Museum’, curated by Paola Nicolin. The exhibition opens on Thursday 26th August 2010, during the opening days of the 12th International Architecture Exhibition of Venice. The exhibition, housed in Palazzetto Tito rooms (Dorsoduro, 2826) , is a reflection on water as a contradictory element, able to link and divide, preserve and destroy, remind and submerge forever, radically changing the perception of space, light and bodies. The project is inspired by Jacques Cousteau utopia of house settlements in Sudan deep sea and a possible life underwater.



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