Xabier Erkizia
Elektra Bidasoa
** Edition of 200 ** A collaborative project between two seasoned sound artists dedicated to a profound listening of sonic phenomena. Created with original recordings from power plants along the Bidasoa river in the Basque Country, Erkizia and López have built vivid, straighforward and transformed sound environments from a myriad hums, rattles, crackles, and drones from the wide variety of machinery and industrial electrical facilities inside the power plants. A macro and microscopic journey int…
Petropolis
2018 release ** The volume/CD Petropolis, a publication of the Department of Education and Learning of the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland, was born from a project by Xabier Erkizia (sound artist E) with the collaboration of Monica Fantini (radio author, F), Michele Mainardi (psychopedagogist, CH) and with the scientific coordination of Eliana Rela (historian, BR) and Lorena Rocca (geographer, IT). The fieldwork was carried out in October 2017 in the Petropolis ne…