Casasonica, MANITUANA, a soundtrackFrom Subsonica to Petrol, eight songs for eight chapters of the noveldocument available in:English Español Italiano 
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Music and narration have been sisters forever. From Australia to Finland, and by way of Greece, myths and legends have been born in song long before becoming spoken stories or written ones. What is new, therefore, if a music label issues a sound track for a novel? Manituana has initiated/taken on an ambitious project: the idea of narrating stories from the novel using every possible medium, in order to explore a narrative universe and make it accessible through/to[?] diverse orientations: novel, comics, videos, music, Web pages. [...] It is in this spirit that Casasonica‘s Max Casacci resolved to take on Wu Ming’s challenge. He proposed to the groups that were to create and record this disc that they read the novel, choose a chapter or a character and set it to music in their own way. That is how these eight songs were born. Now theycan be downloaded free on the Internet: the first among an infinite number of possible sound tracks to Manituana. Whoever wishes can listen to them while they read the chapters that inspired them. Anyone can suggest new combinations. Others can play the same game, perhaps taking other routes, acoustic guitar and voice, violin and mixing board, remix. Finally, whoever thinks that they should imagine their own sounds for the novel can listen to these themes with the book closed. One of the principles of transmedia storytelling is that each piece of the mosaic should be autonomous, a jewel that can be contemplated in the palm of the hand, without necessarily placing it within the complete schema. (from an article by Torinosette on the project presentation, published in Here you can download And by clicking on the top right link, you can listen to the contribution by Petrol, ”Cherry Valley” (Chapter 36, Part III a)
08 May 2007 |
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