Duration: 17:23Sound diffusion: 4th order ambisonics, octophonic, stereo (binaural) fixed mediaCommission: Tempo Reale, Firenze

Tuning Limestone is the result an exploration and mapping of the multiplicity of sound phenotypes that make up the ecosystem of the city of Prato in Tuscany, Italy, documented, processed, and reassembled in a framing process. Just as the marly limestone (dominant in the city's historic buildings and monumental architecture, and very present in the Calvana mountain range northeast of the city) is crossed by veins and points of different color and density, so Prato offers trace and living memory of multiple historical, social, urbanistic, ethnographic and morphological crossings, indelible imprints and elements of shared heritage with a strong timbral connotation. The sound investigation, carried out by documenting different contexts with special recording techniques, was conducted both in a documentary way and through the solicitation of materials, vibrating bodies, mechanical objects and surfaces to analyze their timbral potential and activate a dialogue with the context. Some of these elements were then chosen for their particular spectral and emblematic conformation to punctuate the structure of the composition, restoring a new soundscape at once identifiable and imaginative._Listen on Sounding Future (headphones recommended)