Aphrodite's lullaby - a podcast by Cities and Memory

"I started with the name of the sound "Aphrodite's Rock", which inspired a story: at the beginning, there was nothingness, then Aphrodite emerges from the sea foam and establishes herself first as a woman (indicated by the harp sound) and then as a mother (represented by the piano). Thus, she sings her lullaby to her child until the nightfall. The entire story is accompanied by the wind, which I chose to symbolize through the sound of the Bansuri. 



"In the central section, I utilized the original sound, from her self-affirmation to the conclusion of the lullaby. Here, the sound transforms into the "sound of silence" and of night (I created that sound using a Noise Gate, Fuzz-Wah, and Delay).

At the inception, I employed granulation to modify the sound of Aphrodite's Rock and a Bendir for rhythmic elements.



"The Celtic harp was performed by Angela Cosi, the Bansuri by Giorgia Santoro, the Bendir by Roberto Chiga and the piano by me."



Aphrodite's Rock reimagined by Valentina Marra. 



Part of the Music for Sleep project - for more information and to hear more sounds from the collection, visit https://citiesandmemory.com/music-for-sleep/



IMAGE: Carole Raddato from FRANKFURT, Germany, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons