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).