What does the opposite of inspiration sound like? It's an endless litany of audio prompts delivered with horrible audio and without any sense or order. Created as Assignment #13 for Sarah Geis' Audio Playground www.audioplayground.xyz/
[02/10/2020]

Created for Cities and Memory's Shortwave project, this piece starts from the real shortwave audio from the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster to tell the real story of Robert H. Lawrence Jr., a United States Air Force officer and the first African-American astronaut.

"Shortwave radio is one of the most fascinating sonic worlds – capturing vital moments in world history as well as the thrill of pirate radio, clandestine radio stations, secretive number stations, military and spy radio. All of humanity is truly out there to be listened to at the turn of a dial – and it’s been remixed and reimagined in the Shortwave Transmissions project."

Shortwave is a project by Cities and Memory citiesandmemory.com/shortwave/

The image is by artist Tavares Strachan. I Belong Here (White), 2012

Voice by Romeo Maria Minutolo.
[03/10/2021]

I venture with my namesake Cristina Marras along the Mining Trail of St Barbara, across the Sulcis mining area of Sardinia, gruelling isolated goat trails swept by the ubiquitous mistral wind, but also breath-taking glimpses of views and beaches with water so crystalline that it always reminds me of stained-glass windows in churches. And suddenly the smell of naphtha, motor oil, takes me back to my childhood.

See some of the pictures taken during the trip.

Written, edited and produced by M. Cristina Marras
Music Epidemic Sound
Photo by Giampiero Pinna
Voices: M.Cristina Marras, Cristina Marras, Romeo Minutolo, the cloistered nuns of the Sanctuary of the Virgin of the Good Path.

Thank you Cristina for being such a great adventure companion.
Thank you Giampiero Pinna and thank you to the Fondazione Cammino Minerario di Santa Barbara for your support.

I invite you all to take a look at the Cammino. It's great beyond what I'll be ever able to convey.

[18/01/2022]