Author/s: Valeria Muledda and Viola Berlanda

Date of production: 2022

Language/s: Italian / English

Transmission details: Those who sow utopia will harvest reality! La Casa delle Agriculture Tullia e Gino has been organizing the Notte Verde Festival (Green Night) in Castiglione d’Otranto – a village on the extreme South-East of Italy – for 11 years. Through the years, Notte Verde has become the largest event in the area dedicated to environmental issues, agroecology, biological and ethical agriculture. Every year, on August 31 they have celebrated the New Year of the agricultural cycle, mixing local and international experiences in agroecology through participation, co-creation, exchange and sharing generative forces. 

Seed Bombs is a constellation of sonic elements harvested during the 11th edition of the Notte Verde Festival. It’s a collection of sounds, documentary fragments, songs, debates, rumours and whispers, as well as field recordings of questions, speeches, music and poetry that resonate with the contributions of the communities that nurished the 2022 Notte Verde Festival.

Seed Bombs is a sonic gesture that slips into the radio to proliferate, a handful of tiny seeds that will grow in the forest, on the cliff or in the fields. Piano-piano, at their own pace. Our sonic seed bombs expand in different environments, forms and habitats to amplify biodiversity through our experience of the Green Night Festival of Castiglione.

Seed Bombs is a bomb of sonic seeds that carry change and transformation though the network of the earth we are all part of.

Credits: Viola Berlanda and Valeria Muledda/Studiovuoto
in collaboration with Free Home University, La Casa delle Agriculture Tullia e Gino and Ecoversities Alliance. with: Ayrin Anastas, Begonia Arechederra, Leonardo Beccarisi, Tiziana Colluto, Luigi Coppola, Yara Dowani, Rene Gabri, Imma Longo, Ada Martella, Francesco Minonne, Nikolay Oleinikov, Alessandra Pomarico, Cosimo Rolli, Begonia Santa Cecilia, Gigi Schiavano, Ermanno Serratí, and tall he spaces, sounds, and inhabitants of Castiglione d’Otranto. and: La Casa delle Agriculture Tullia e Gino, Ass. Auser Ponte Andrano-Castiglione, Another Art, Campo Adentro, Convocatoria Ecologista Taranto, Chto Delat School of Engaged art, Confederacy of Villages, Manu Manu Riforesta, KFHuset.

Music Credits: “Mother Earth’s Plantasia” by Mort Garson, the live music of Almoraima in Castiglione d’Otranto

Episodes: 1