Tukan

"Some years ago, when we were still living in Poland, my partner and I drove to Füssen to collect a second-hand canoe that we had found online. Its name was Tukan. I’m fairly certain it had frequently travelled the River Lech with its previous owners who were keen canoeists and most likely knew their way around the water."These days, Tukan sometimes glides along the tidal rivers around Southampton, carrying those earlier journeys quietly within."In this piece, I used a field recording from the workshop in Füssen, alongside the sound of Tukan itself, which I captured with a contact microphone. I blended these textures with gentle synths and pads — small sonic currents filling the spaces in between. I guess my aim was to evoke a sense of interconnectedness: how places, objects, and moments echo through time, and how sometimes certain sounds, or memories, resurface." Section of the river Lech reimagined by Canis Arboris. -------Flow is a creative exploration telling the story of a river through the power of sound. The project is a collaboration between the University of Padova and the University of Würzburg, with support from Cities and Memory. Explore the full project at https://citiesandmemory.com/flow.