URBAN AUDIO Ancient Messene
The 2018 edition of the tunedcity festival took place on the archeological site of Ancient Messene in Greece.
The city of Messene, which was founded 394 B.C., lies in ruins today.
Recording with the URBAN AUDIO project was a challenge in Messene, as there is no urban sounds.
The solution was to use the instruments with contact-microphones (instead of conventional microphones) and to focus on the civilisations that inhabited the site before the ancient greek and again inhabit the site today: insects.
With the contact-microphones placed in the grass, it was the various sounds of the insects that triggert the instruments.