The sound installation by Mario Verandi "The Neighbouring Shore" is inspired by four literary and musical theads: a text by foremost writer Julio Cortázar and three popular songs deeply embeded in the collective memory of Argentina. These four threads are woven to form a sound fabric that evokes places and moments gone in time. Displacement is populated by memories, and this piece, constructed by Verandi from the experience of living far away fromm home, forms a subtle chain that links us to the other side. The four succesive soundscapes or "postales sonoras" (sound postcards), as the artiist has called them, are composed using a variety of environmental recordings from four specific locations in Argentina. Verandi favours real world sounds in contrast with computer generated sounds. "The Neighbouring Shore" was produced at the Electroacoustic Music Studios of the University of Birmingham. It was premiered in the exhibition "The Neighbouring Shore", held at the Bolivar Hall in London in 1998. Aural stimulation is a powerful key which opens the doors to hidden memories. It can bring back a whole array of emotions of past experiences including minimal details such as the intensity of light, the smell of food, or the touch of a loved one. Within his musical collage, Verandi weaves all the threads that make the fabric of life a rich mixture of lived and imagined moments. Gabriela Salgado, curator of the Open House exhibition at the Argentine Embassy in London. The Neighbouring Shore (1998)     mp3