MELODIE MEDITERRANEE

A SOUND INSTALLATION IN A MULTISENSORY INSTALLATION

Year: 2017
Location: Genoa, Italy
Client: I Saloni Nautici SRL, Ucina, Spim
Size: 150 sqm
Typology-tag: Exhibition installation
Phase: Concept research, preliminary, definitive, detailed design, construction
Design Team:
Margherita Del Grosso
Matteo Orlandi
Roberto Pugliese

Piazza del Vento
OBR Paolo Brescia e Tommaso Principi,
RINA Consulting,
Valter Scelsi
A.mare: Ivan Tresoldi, Artkademy
Massimiliano Dalle Sasse
Andrea Silvestri,
Alessio Poggi
Andrea Silvestri
Caterina Galli
Martina Guasco
Martina Tortello
Gianluca Sobrero

Craftmen and suppliers:

Aster
Giplanet
Rina Services
Rs Service
Vernazza Autogru

Sponsor:
Capoferri Serramenti

Partner:
Boris Production, Fuselli, Gottifredi Maffioli, Harken, Ivela, Mure a Dritta, North Sails, One Sails, Quantum Sails

Photo:
Studio Borlenghi, Carola merello, Matteo Orlandi

Sound Consultant: Roberto Pugliese / robertopugliese.com

Wind has always been the energy through which people have been exploring and trading with new lands, creating linguistic, cultural and even musical connections, as we can say that the Mediterranean Sea has its own sound.
“Melodie Mediterranee” is a sound installation suspended between masts of the “Piazza del Vento”, a collective multisensory installation that celebrates the rite of urbanity of Genoa on the sea and represents the legacy of the International Boat Show to the city.
A system of 19 brass resonating brass bells of different lengths “tuned” according to a musical scale that for the occasion has been called “Scala Mediterranea” (Mediterranean Scale).
The sound of the mare nostrum with chords from a Mediterranean musical scale played by the wind.
Within the installation, the delicate jingles of the brass rods communicate with the elements of the maritime tradition: masts, sails and windex evoke the subtle sound of boats moored in harbor lulled by the sea.
A tribute to an unpredictable energy that cheerfully caresses the notes of our Mediterranean.