Davide Tidoni: Collected Recordings #5

Davide Tidoni is an artist and researcher interested in the relational dimension of listening, and in the physical experience of sound. He works with live performance, intervention, audio recording, video, and guided listening. He recently published a sound ethnography on the ultras group BRESCIA 1911. 'Collected Recordings' is a series of works selected by Tidoni from his extensive back catalogue.

For this fifth episode of his collected recordings he presents 2 works: Ultras Karaoke and Ultras Mashup.

Ultras Karaoke (2019)

This work is a karaoke version of a series of football chants. The lyrics sung by fans are combined with a midi-track version of the original songs.

Ultras Mashup (2018)

This work consists of a series of audio tracks in which recordings of football chants are mixed with the “original” songs. It explores the musical aspect of football fan supporters culture and the practice of creation through appropriation.

The recordings include repurposed versions of Giuseppe Verdi’s opera theme 'Aida', 'Gam Gam', a traditional Jewish song from Psalm 23, Marcella Bella’s 1972 Sanremo Festival version of 'Montagne Verdi', Walt Disney’s whistling theme from Robin Hood, 'La Mula de Parensio', a folk song from northern Italy, a Coca-Cola jingle called 'Buy the World a Coke', Dean Martin’s signature song 'That’s Amore', and Righeira’s 80’s summer hit 'L’Estate Sta Finendo'.

The football chants used in the tracks were recorded at the stadium and on away matches as part of Davide’s involvement with the ultras group Brescia 1911.