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Aeolian harps made their voices heard, bringing sound and life to the spectacular landscape of the Brenta Dolomites.

 

 

LISTENING TO THE

LANDSCAPE

 

 

 

 

 

 

The harp-bearers
arrive at our point of departure,
where there is no boundary,
where we wait for the wind
to hear its song.

Luigi Berardi

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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.

 

 

 

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