Stazione Confini

Stazione Confini is an application that takes the form of a "sound show" that can be visited and listened to in five railway stations in Friuli-Venezia Giulia (Pordenone, Udine, Cividale del Friuli, Gorizia Centrale, Trieste Centrale).
Each station is associated with an unpublished story and a sound composition inspired by the place and the themes of the border and travel.
Listening to each audio track takes about 15/20 minutes.It is a digital tool that contributes to the enhancement of the border culture of the Region through a reflection on its having always been a land of transit and contamination between identity and belonging over the centuries.
The goal is to address the complexity of this cultural intersection with a contemporary look, working on the narration and sound, on the imagery they evoke, on the emotions they generate.The theme is addressed by delving into the voices of time, into the tales of today and tomorrow, creating a "sound exhibition" in which five writers and writers elaborate as many texts that enter into dialogue and assonance with sound compositions created by five sound designers international.
Each work has a site-specific character as the lyrics and music are created ad hoc for each individual railway station.
These are compositions that work on the specificities of each context and the cultural vectors of which each station is a part, identifying in these spaces the most suitable places to represent the symbolism of departure, arrival and the encounter between cultures.
The idea is to make artists from different disciplines interact to create works that you listen to in the context of a train station make you live an immersive experience, in which the historical and cultural characteristics of the area can find a new context.
To do this, sound art was chosen for its ability to make music, narrations and places interact within unconventional spaces but with a strong architectural and evocative character.Stazione Confini wants to use the smartphone as a new medium for art, thanks to the geo-localization system that will allow the user to listen to the work only within the station for which it was created.
This choice leads the viewer to remain within the space for which the work was created, with the idea of ​​recreating the mode of use of a classic exhibition within an unusual context and with a more intimate and experiential approach.
.Once the application has been downloaded, the user has the possibility to choose the station to go to to listen to the related sound work.
For each station you will find the details related to the work, namely the title, duration, authors and authors, their biographies, a brief synopsis and credits.
Thanks to a geolocation system of the users smartphone, it will be possible to enjoy and listen to the work only when you are inside the chosen train station.
At this point, the user is invited to find a quiet place or a bench to sit on, and then put on the headphones and listen to the audio track in the best possible way.
Once listening is complete, the user can listen to the track other times and no longer in the associated station.Stazione Confini is built by Puntozero Cooperative Society with the support of the Friuli-Venezia Giulia Region.
The editing of the texts is by Bottega Errante, that of the sound compositions by Continuo APS, the IT development is by Mobile 3D srl.The stories were written by Emilio Rigatti for Cividale del Friuli, Francesco Tomada for Gorizia, Lorenza Stroppa for Pordenone, Federica Marzi for Trieste, Anna Dazzan for Udine.The sound compositions were created by Antonio Della Marina for Cividale, Anna Stereopoulou for Gorizia, Karen Asatrian for Pordenone, URKUMA for Trieste, Andrey Kiritchenko for Udine.