Luca Nasciuti



COMPOSER | CURATOR | ARTIST



The People of Scotland



Series of film poems from 3 poems curated by the Scottish Makar Kathleen Jamie for the Scottish Poetry Library to mark COP26.





The Gift



In the words of Herodotus, Egypt is the gift of the Nile. al-Qāhirah, the capital city of Egypt is also a gift of the river and a symbol of years of culture cross-overs and constant growth and expansion. My experience of the city has been primarily pinpointed by my working routine: campus rituals, coffee breaks, bus journeys to work and back home, morning coffees at home with my window open listening to the sound of water sprinklers, air conditioning fans and birds tweeting outside my window and the evening soundscape building up into a dense cacophony of car horns, traffic, people strolling and socialising in the streets. The spatiality of the city is still unknown to me. My exploration of the urban network has been driven by chance, a series of unplanned wanderings that led me to stumble upon very different sonic realms.





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The field Recording Show



​A Programme exploring the soundscape , recording, listening, and composing hosted by Kate Carr and Luca Nasciuti on Resonance Extra





KISHAR



'On the surface, Kishar is a journey through the natural soundscapes of Scotland and Iceland, but below the surface, it’s much more than that. In a literal sense, the album investigates the properties of what lies beneath the earth, from geyser to lava spring. But it also exposes the fury of noise. The closer one comes to a waterfall or volcano, the more one realizes that nature possesses the ability to drown out all competing sound. Kishar draws ever closer to the edge, curiously peering, dangling and finally falling in. Luca Nasciuti's soundscapes scrape and roar, rumble and surge, the polar opposite of what most expect to encounter in field recordings. Their internal dynamism sets Kishar apart from others of its genre. The original recordings have been altered in a manner that mirrors humanity’s effect on the land, while the raw emotion reflects the volatility of the current debate. Only the opening seconds of flowing water seem pure before the pollution sets in. In this encounter, we are the noise.' Richard Allen

Full review accessible here: A Closer Listen





dates



​September 2021 (Bi-Monthly) | 'The Field Recording Show' with Kate Carr, Resonance Extra