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 [15]  The Carletto I am looking for is not here ! 

Let's travel today ...


 

We are in Italy. It is a hot Summer day in August 2012. I am about to set up a sound installation, my contribution to an arts festival, celebrating contemporary music and sound art. 

Daytime, cool interior at the Church in Avellino, a friendly chap, who – I later learn – is called Carlo, the helpful turns up. "Carletto"plays a beat-up Harmonium while joyfully singing a traditional Italian song. Apparently it is a Christmas song, one he usually plays on accordeon accompanied by a tamboura (tambourine) while processing through town – from door to door during Christmas time, as it has been tradition for many years. His English is not great, my Italian worse. 


 

 
 



 

 

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