Using the Aeolian harp, the idea was to create new sound maps
that would lead to the acoustic heart of the Dolomites. It was
an intense experience. The group of hikers who set off along
the footpath known as "Brenta's Blow", accompanied
by a guide from the Adamello Brenta Natural Park, were given
the chance to listen to the sounds carried by the wind: "music
for the eyes", evoked by this mountain scenery. Seeing
and touching the landscape through sound means re-thinking our
senses, as if, like Foucault, we were re-establishing the techniques
of the self within a perceptive framework, like regaining not
an identity but a flowing identity, an idea of ourselves that
responds to the landscape that surrounds us.
Aeolian harps are "perceptive traps", inspiring us
to listen, and rediscover the pleasure of balance between our
own personal vibrations and the harmonious sound of the natural
landscape. Nature itself is an Aeolian harp, a musical instrument
whose notes touch a higher chord deep within us. Letting things
happen while allowing ourselves to be inspired; truly listening
means immersing yourself in a distant, primordial world that
resonates within us as if we were actually there, because it
is the origin from which we come, and also the destination we
yearn for. Listening is a special, magnetic experience, a creative
force.