In today’s episode we’ll listen to Anna Vienna Ho’s composition. For Flow, she worked on Segment 21 of the River Lech — the Stadtwald Augsburg, a vast urban forest south of the city, where calm canal waters wind through parkland and families spend their Sunday afternoons. A landscape that is at once carefully managed and quietly alive.

We’ve reached out to her, asking more about the philosophy and the process behind her work.

Flow is a project by Dr Martina Cecchetto, with the scientific contribution of Dr Florian Betz and the artistic curation of Riccardo Fumagalli, in collaboration with Cities & Memory, the University of Padua (Italy), and the University of Würzburg (Germany).

Have you ever wondered what a wildfire pattern sounds like? Or have you ever wished for an ambient drone to accompany a text you wrote? Good news, now you have some intuitive, interactive online tools to do exactly that.

Tim Waterfield is the man behind the Karhide project who, together with Rafael Diogo’s Deep Dive Sound, created Lo-fi River Flow for our project.

On top of making music he’s always very busy creating ways to make music technology more accessible and easier to use. I spoke with him recently about some of the free tools he created.

Giuseppe Cordaro is a sound sculptor and field recordist based in Reggio Emilia, Italy. His practice sits between attentive documentary listening and abstraction — drawn to places where sound behaves like matter, where a landscape can be heard as a living score, and where a recording becomes not an illustration of a site but its afterimage.

Giuseppe treated the field recording as his entire palette — foreground, environment, and instrument simultaneously. His composition is called Braided Memory (Lech). We’ve reached out to him to know more about the process behind his composition. You can read the interview here below and listen to his music in the podcast episode.

"I approached the River Lech as a memory machine: wide air and landscape, close water detail, and the river’s vibrations. These hidden resonances became the harmonic spine of the piece. The composition stays faithful to the original source while drifting into abstraction: selective time-stretching and spectral sculpting reveal submerged textures; granulation turns droplets and foam into a fine acoustic dust; site-shaped reverberation merges perspectives into one blurred, dreamlike space. What begins as a recognisable current slowly becomes a palimpsest: the river as presence, then as afterimage."

- Giuseppe Cordaro

Flow is a project by Dr Martina Cecchetto, with the scientific contribution of Dr Florian Betz and the artistic curation of Riccardo Fumagalli, in collaboration with Cities & Memory, the University of Padua (Italy), and the University of Würzburg (Germany).