I speak the city
I speak the city narrates the day of a man whose house has absorbed the outside sounds. Moving between realism and the oneiric, this short film has been shot in the city of SiPing (JiLin), giving the viewer also the opportunity to take a glimpse at a small, fast-developing city in the North East of China. Noise is not treated as a merely acoustic event, but also as a metaphor for an ever more busy and precarious working life, that demands from people constant availability. The audio part of the composition is made up of three elements which are concrete sounds, acoustic and electronic sounds. The acoustic part is played with two Chinese instruments: a small Gong and the Erhu. Both of these instruments try to reinforce the identity of the place in which the story takes place. The concrete sounds are registrations of objects directly connected and used in the story.