The journey begins between the rising moon and the setting sun, leaving the land behind and opening the horizon ahead. Every departure subtends a process about preparation, will and perspective. The awareness of where the soul lays is the assumption to plan where it should be at the end of the route. Then comes the evaluation of risks, tuning the equipment by the needs that may occur. Trace a line on the map, double check the calculations, confere with the crew about the plan and there’s only one thing left before you can close the eyes and sail by the wind, the most important one: rise the anchor.

First goofy interactions with this old and still unknown travel companion. It is clear that there is a message to get and we start to sail as we start to listen. What we thought was a familiar sound turns deeper and thicker, to hearing the dialogues among sea creatures with the hydrophones dropped under the surface of the water.

Vessel and its rigging are what let a sailor going throught new worlds and adventures. Every sailor recognizes the clatters of the nautical environment as the sounds of his own belly. You become attached to obsessive rythms of ropes bumping on the mast or mooring springs screams, beace within wind and water speak about what is going to be of our hopes.

The Sea moves dimensions not accessible to human beings. Where a sailor may lift kg of power, the wind pushes tons. The nautical art inveted a way to harness the strenghts and handle with elegance and coordination, otherwise we are lost. The effort is transmitted to the fibers and their complaint bears witness the sacrifice they’re gifting in order to choose our destination. The ropes.

After many days at sea you can clearly hear its voice. It is a sound from the depth and from the smallest drop on the surface. It is an organic partecipation, since not a kickstarter, of life. Human ears can hardly get the completeness of this expression, while the outcoming feeling is immediately overhelming. Here’s where we learned how to translate the language of nature into sounds.

Spectrogram

Noun [spek-truh-gram] a graphic representation, produced by a sound spectrograph, of the frequency, intensity, duration, and variation with time of the resonance of a sound or series of sounds. By the analysis of a spectrogram non audible signals may be found, which is the reason why they are used for scientific reasearch purposes

Every harbor of the Sardinia we’ve hit is a point linked to the others by the water we sailed throught. Every harbor has been a value we earned in our experience and each one opened its personality to our microphones. To sum up all of them we made the arithmetic average of the water nuances we’ve surfed and came out the average color of East Sardinia Sea, Pantone 2200c.

Alessandro Deledda                         Piano, Synth

Federico Ortica                                 Soundscape, effects

41°00’34.9”N 09°34’37,2”E            28 kts of wind, NW

As soon we learned how to translate the voice of the Sea we wanted to create the interplay. The most important thing when encountering such a player is the most important thing among human beings: listening. It’s not a matter of tecnique rather than sensitiveness, and just mignificient musicians in both ways could get the inner message of such an opportunity.