Swimming in Gaza / نعوم في غزة
Author/s: Lina Issa e Gianluca Cangemi
Date of production: 2025
Language/s: Italian, Arabic, English
Co-ordinates: Gaza– Latitude 31°30′00″ N | Longitude 34°28′00″E
Malkhie: a Palestinian village erased from the maps.
Transmission details:
This is a sonic response composed in urgency and in the impossibility of remaining silent. It is a reaction to the campaign “L’ultimo Giorno di Gaza/ The last day of Gaza”, aimed at denouncing European complicity in the genocide of the Palestinian people. We join all the voices that refuse to accept that this could be Gaza’s last day. The title echoes the voice of a boy answering the question: what is freedom?
Questa è una reazione sonora composta nell’urgenza e nell’impossibilità di continuare a tacere. È una risposta alla campagna “L’ultimo giorno di Gaza” per denunciare l’implicazione europea nel genocidio del popolo palestinese. Ci uniamo a tutte le voci che si rifiutano di pensare che questo sia l’ultimo giorno di Gaza. Il titolo riporta la voce di un ragazzo che risponde alla domanda cos’è la libertà?
Credits:
Instant composed by Lina Issa and Gianluca Cangemi on 9 May, 2025, for GazaLastDay.
Words and voice [Arabic, English, Italian]: Lina Issa
Sound composition, editing, and design: Gianluca Cangemi Source sound materials:
– Heron TP military drone’s take off recorded by Ruben Pater (Drone Survival Guide) and Gonçalo F. Cardoso (Discrepant)
– “Arabic Lesson, part 8”, audio from Jehad Al Farra’s Instagram account [ https://www.instagram.com/jehadalfara ]
– Morning with rooster, field recorded in Gaza on Oct. 13, 2023, by 4187appaloosa [freesounds.org – License: Attribution NonCommercial 4.0]
– Wind blowing through a garden of olive trees, field recorded in Puglia, Italy, on Feb. 2024, by nicotep [freesounds.org – License: Attribution NonCommercial 4.0]
– Palestinian children singing, and Palestinian children imitating sounds of drones, blasts and airstrikes, audio from Translating Falasteen’s Instagram account [ https://www.instagram.com/translating_falasteen/ ]
– Lina Issa’s voice recorded through exchange of voice messages with Gianluca Cangemi on IM platform
