Year 2 Composition: "Rinnovò" (A. Goodall)
Channel: LCC B.A. Sound Arts 
Date: 16/09/2020

Student Writing:
"'It is clear, then, that the multiplicity of the codification that occurs when words are translated is not just a matter of the formalities of semantics. The interactions between the original and the new are so nuanced that it is easy to become ignorant to the appropriations and liberties inherent in opening up the scope of a set of words.
This is the general area I have been exploring while working with an incomplete and untitled Umberto Saba poem. Written as the character of Ernesto from the novel of the same name (Saba, 2017), the letter from which the poem is taken is addressed to Tullio Mogno, who had penned an essay detailing his response to Saba’s poetry. The convolution of how this poem has come to be before me is fascinating, and in keeping with my interests from earlier this year around sound’s ability to construct lived experience and expose unknowable human auralities, Rinnovò is an exploration of what it means for untapped aural potential to be unwittingly codified. Through manipulating multiple renderings of the text including with morse code translations, recitals in both English and Italian, and through procedural audio algorithms, I aim to deconstruct 67 years of untapped aurality."