📍Festival Itacà 5 luglio 2026, ore 14.30-16.30 Ponte Caffaro BS
👂Paesaggi sonori - Degustazione di suoni tipici con Sara Maino, sound artist e performer
🎧 Itinerario nell’esperienza sonora della Valle del Chiese tra il fiume omonimo e il lago d’Idro. Per conoscere la voce di questo luogo, e prendere coscienza delle stumature inaspettate del mondo... dal punto d’ascolto delle orecchie.
ℹ️ Ritrovo per la partenza: ore 14.30 in via del Quadri I, parcheggio bordo lago, Ponte Caffaro BS.(mappa) 📳 per info cell 340 58 66 310
dal 26 giugno al 27 settembre 2026 martedì-domenica 14.30-18.00 inaugurazione della mostra venerdì 26 giugno ore 18.30
Ideazione, testi, voce, immagini, registrazioni, montaggio, regia: Sara Maino Progetto: Sara Maino e Fiorenza Tisi Organizzazione e collaborazione: Carmela Bresciani, Diego Salizzoni, Gianni Bresciani Allestimento: Marco Cestarolli – Liminis a.p.s. Produzione: Centro Studi Judicaria, Ecomuseo della Judicaria e Centro di Sviluppo Locale A. Gorfer, 2026
L’itinerario sonoro nei tre parchi dalle Dolomiti al Garda, che qui si racconta, si compie in ascolto.
Il primo atto si svolge in Val d’Ambiez, nel Parco Naturale Adamello Brenta, a toccare i silenzi alti e l’origine liquida; nel secondo, si scende a riposare nel paradiso d’acque del Parco delle Terme di Comano; infine, nel terzo atto, si giunge a Riva del Garda, all’apertura di tutti i sensi abbracciati dall’Òra, tra il Parco Miralago e la fascia lacustre.
Il viaggio nel bacino del fiume Sarca è caratterizzato da un’immersione totale nel suo paesaggio sonoro. Il filo rosso dei tre racconti è l’acqua, regina delle valli e delle forre, che si intreccia con il vento: sono gli elementi portanti della narrazione e delle sonorizzazioni.
L’autrice, con i protagonisti delle tre audiostorie, restituisce l’esperienza di registrazione e di ascolto dei parchi nello stile di una prosa poetica intessuta di testimonianze dalle voci umane e dai segni acustici dei territori attraversati. Un ascolto dove la voce si fonde nei flussi sonori e i suoni contraddistinguono la voce dei luoghi.
Una scansione quasi musicale, focalizzata a catturare l’attenzione e il senso della storia che, in ultima, ambisce a offrire le emozioni raccolte e un senso di trasformazione a ogni tappa del viaggio.
Cosa accade quando ascoltiamo veramente? Cosa cambia, quando la nostra attenzione si concentra sulla parte acustica dell’esperienza? Il mondo ci viene incontro, e noi lo accogliamo.
Quando ci mettiamo davvero in ascolto, cominciamo a percepire e a distinguere la ricchezza dei suoni dentro e fuori di noi. Iniziamo a riconoscerne profondamente la bellezza, ci sentiamo parte di essa e desideriamo curarla e proteggerla. Perché il paesaggio, la natura, i luoghi che abitiamo sono un bene collettivo da custodire.
#selezione #scuolaprimaria #progettosonoro Siamo stra-felici di comunicare che la composizione sonora “Lo spirito del bosco” realizzata al Bosco Caproni di Arco con la classe V della scuola primaria di Massone nell’ambito del progetto “Nel gran libro del mondo, con le mie orecchie” 2025-26 è stata selezionata da On-air On-site e sarà trasmessa via radio da Den Haag (NL) domenica 24 maggio alle ore 11.30 all’interno del festival 2026.
Lo spirito del bosco (The spirit of the forest) Recordings, editing and direction: Sara Maino and Claudia Ferretti Teachers: Eva Fornari, Elvira Cosentino Year 2026 Duration 15’00
This vocal and sound composition is the result of a live performance held in the quarries of Bosco Caproni in Arco, a mountainous area of Trentino, in Italy. The protagonists are eighteen pupils from Year V at Massone Primary School and their teachers. They took part in the educational and artistic project “In the Great Book of the World, with my Ears“, with the aim to exploring the soundscape of their village and of the surrounding area.
The idea was conceived by sound artist and researcher Sara Maino and brought to life in collaboration with teachers Eva Fornari, Miriam Michelotti and Elvira Cosentino, Irene Matassoni and musician Claudia Ferretti.
The children were first invited to listen to the natural soundscape of the quarries, then to observe, draw and interpret the ‘music’ etched into the rock formations, and finally to sing, drawing inspiration from the dripping water.
Here, their voices seek to attune themselves to the language of the rocks, in the hope of striking up a sonic dialogue with the genius loci, the spirit of the place.
BROADCASTS ACROSS GLASGOW ON 87.9FM 24 HOURS A DAY: 7th – 20th April, 2025
RETI DEL DISCORSO / SPEECH NETWORK composition by Sara Maino (produced by Portobeseno festival in 2024) has been selected to be on air on 16 April 2025 11:00 am – 11:30 am
A synchronized discourse of memories, views on life, affections, individual and collective stories of people, realized by editing 20 years of archives collected in the valleys of Trentino.
RADIOPHRENIA is a radio art collective, festival and art radio station broadcasting intermittently across Glasgow.
Full broadcast schedule: https://radiophrenia.scot/schedule/
MAISON DES CULTURES ET DE LA COHÉSION SOCIALE DE MOLENBEEK SAINT-JEAN lun 26 fév – ven 1 mar 2024 Atelier sensoriel créatif dirigé par Sara Maino Composer des bandes sonores Activités créatives de 9h à 16h
Un petit stage nous amènera à découvrir les sons de notre environnement et à les enregistrer à l’aide d’un appareil spécial, d’un micro et d’un casque. Ce sera l’occasion de jouer à composer des bandes sonores que nous utiliserons pour accompagner des histoires, des contes et des danses. Dans l’atelier, nous découvrirons nos capacités créatives les plus cachées et les exprimerons avec les connaissances de chacun pour enflammer l’énergie de tous !
RADIO MOLENBEEK – Progetto realizzato in 4 giorni con 11 allieve e allievi
Sigla Radio MolenbeekTRACCIA 1. Radio GamingTRACCIA 2. QuizMolenTRACCIA 3. MicromolenbeekTRACCIA 4. La natureTRACCIA 5. Les sons humaines et des animaux
16-22 September 2023 CELLAR 1 Porthemor Studios Back Road West St. Ives (UK)
I will be participating to the Dadalounge event (pop-up experimental spaces) in St. Ives with the sound installations “Marvels du Mer du Nord” (14’17, 2022) and Café Europa (14’41, 2023) “Marvels du Mer du Nord” (14’17, 2022), is a sound installation which I created last year for the exhibition “Da-No Embryology of inspiration”: “Café Europa” (14’41, 2023) is a recent audio drama, featuring the poet Marina Kazakova and me, – shown in Venice at Festival Palabra en el Mundo and on Radiophrenia Glasgow.
BROADCASTS ACROSS GLASGOW ON 87.9FM 24 HOURS A DAY: 21st August – 3rd September, 2023
RADIOPHRENIA is a temporary art radio station broadcasting intermittently from the Centre for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow. The broadcast schedule includes a series of 16 newly commissioned radio works, 14 Live-to-Air performances as well as live studio shows, screenings, shorts and pre-recorded features. As in previous years the majority of the programme will be made up from selections submitted to an international open call for sound art and radio works.
Shorts 23 – 29 August 2023 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm 1 – Sara Maino – Cafè Europa (14:41) 2 – TaQuid – Touchy Feely (2:54) 3 – Ash Walker (Rekevant Elephants) – The Certainty of An Uncertain Future (3:35) 4 – João Pedro Oliveira – Neshamah (11:28) 5 – Laird Lee Kirk – Drones (4:29) 6 – Pelayo Del Villar Flores – [in]comunicado (5:07) 7 – Michael Kelly – Compiled journal of Timothy Yod, chrononaut (15:44)
https://radiophrenia.scot/calendar/tue-29/
1 – Sara Maino – Cafè Europa
Editing and direction Sara Maino Poems and Voices by Sara Maino and Marina Kazakova Soundscapes recorded by Sara Maino all around Europe Sound effects from the free archive of BBC Rewind Traditional Music played on a radio (Katioucha Otchi Tchornye performed by Sirba Octet)
Two characters (Europa and the East-Comer) meet in a café in an unknown city. They confess their visions, feelings and memories to each other, giving the sense to seemingly solipsistic monologues.
Supported by Research Foundation Flanders and LUCA School of Arts/KU Leuven Premiered at Festival internazionale di poesia Palabra en el mundo di Venezia 2023
Sara Maino (b. Arco, Italy, 1970) is an Italian audio-visual artist, poet and performer, film and theatre director and a community-engaged researcher. She studied Literature and Philosophy at the University of Trento and undertook a non-formal education in theatre, cinema, art. She’s studying Philosophy at the University of Trento. She worked for Rai Radiotelevisione Italiana as an author and multimedia expert and curated two radio programs on poetry and collective memories. As an educator she works with Italian and Belgian schools, museums, associations. Her research is focused on sounds and field recording, on the memory’s collection of local communities, on storytelling. Her goal is to develop the awareness of active listening, being also inspired by the research on soundscape’s studies. She’s the author of theatrical shows and multimedia poetry performances. She has performed at literary festivals, events, to art galleries in Italy and in London, Norway, Greece, Lithuania, Bosnia, Ireland, in the Netherlands, Bulgaria, South Korea. She won the art national contest “Brocche 2.0” with her sound installation in 2013. Her audiovisual installations, films and paintings have been shown in solo and collective exhibitions in Italian museums and galleries, in Germany and Belgium.
Field recording, ricerca e raccolta etnografica di testimonianze, progetto sonoro di comunità. Scrittura testi, montaggio e regia per la realizzazione dell’audioguida, un progetto sonoro per raccontare il borgo medievale di Gromo con la collaborazione degli abitanti di Gromo, del Corpo musicale, del gruppo giovani e immigrati.
Wandering around the Belgian Coast of the North Sea, I sometimes do my field recordings’ sessions in search of inspiration and new ideas.
On Thursday 13th January 2022 I walked along the beach in Koksijde-Bad, at sunset. It was an amazing perfect time-space-sound conjunction.
I shared on Twitter the sound recording and the picture I took that moment. The tweet has been noticed by the Dutch based site Field Recordings, which published this contribution on 18th January 2022.
The site is “a podcast where audio-makers stand silently in fields (or things that could be broadly interpreted as fields).”
Since 2009 the artist collective Medea Electronique has organized annually a 10-day experimental artist residency, Koumaria, near Sparta in Greece, focusing on improvisation and new media practices. Avant-garde artists from all over the world, inspired by the Greek natural landscape, come together to create a multicultural and cross-media ‘dialogue’ culminating in a collective presentation in Athens at the end of the residency.
The goal of the residency is the creation of an educational experience for the participants that will inspire and exalt their future work. The cross-cultural dialogues that the residency engenders both create new artistic speculations and smelt older assumptions. Past residents have formed lasting friendships and new artistic partnerships. Medea Electronique, being an eclectic art collective, is interested in people from diverse cultural and artistic backgrounds. For us the residency serves as a model for future creative endeavors.
“Marvels du Mer du Nord” (14’17, 2022), is a sound installation which I created last year for the exhibition “Da-No Embryology of inspiration”:
