Fiesta di Maria, Sardinia

Part of our Dada Sound project (February 2016) - see more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/dadasounds By Stephen Shiell.

" I took my inspiration from Hugo Ball’s sound poem practice, and the number 100. I selected a field recording of a religious festival in Sardinia, with fireworks and a dog barking. By splicing the field recording into its abstract parts and reconfiguring it I have evoked a surrealist version of god, and, by chance, reimagined the chant to Saint Maria into a chant for ‘dada’. I edited my field recording into 10 parts, then I edited each part into a 1 second clip, leaving me with 10 seconds of audio. Next I multiplied each clip by 10, giving me 100 clips. These were then collaged across ten tracks and sequenced to play continuously. I listened for the perfect sequence and recorded the final 100 seconds - 1 minute 40, hence the title ‘140 poem’."