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In Italy we devote three years to the study of Dante’s Holy Comedy, but despite of analysis and exegesis, no one remembers Purgatory and Heaven, we all remember Hell.Amongst the many characters encountered in Hell, Odysseus is one of those that I’ve always loved because I very much identified with his spirit of rebellion against rules and his passion for discovery. Reading the story of Odysseus today, I still love it, but I cannot avoid thinking that behind every hero there is a multitude of enablers, people who must take care of the dirty, hidden, unsatisfactory and unheroic daily tasks, so that the destined hero can take his masculine place among the other masculine heroes.I decided to tell the heroic story through the eyes of one of those enabler, making her a woman in love who doesn’t regret having followed her hero to Hell, at the cost of hiding her true self, because her love for Odysseus is second only to her love for discovery and adventure.Part of the Inferno project to imagine and compose the sounds of Dante’s Hell, marking the 700th anniversary of The Divine Comedy. To find out more, visit www.citiesandmemory.com/infernoVoice, words, production and sound design by M. Cristina Marras

Some things are better left untold.Created for Sarah Geis' Audio Playground www.audioplayground.xyz/Photo by 8 verthing on Unsplash

Sonic poem inspired by my last 5 Google searches, created as Assignment #12 for Sarah Geis' Audio Playground www.audioplayground.xyz/[02/10/2020]

What does it feel like when you want to hug someone but you know that you should not? Or when you do, despite knowing that you should not?This is the new normal, when even the most mundane tasks, like taking the shopping to your elderly mother, become source of worry and doubt.Initially created as Assignment #10 for Sarah Geis' Audio Playground, "Create an audio hug, 1-minute or less", Hug was featured on Australian broadcaster FBI Radio, on the program All The Best, and was also one of 2021 On Air Fest Official Selects.[02/10/2020]

What does the opposite of inspiration sound like? It's an endless litany of audio prompts delivered with horrible audio and without any sense or order. Created as Assignment #13 for Sarah Geis' Audio Playground www.audioplayground.xyz/[02/10/2020]

You are a weatherperson. Dress up, go outside, and give a 1-minute weather report. Created as Assignment #2 for Sarah Geis' Audio Playground www.audioplayground.xyz/[02/10/2020]

It’s 2pm on a regular Thursday in the year 2050. Record a 30-second dispatch. Created as Assignment #11 for Sarah Geis' Audio Playground www.audioplayground.xyz/[02/10/2020]

I don’t have a single picture from when the wall came down. That Thursday in 1989, I didn’t even take my camera with me, on purpose, and mind you, I never stepped outside without my Minox. Rule number one is that you don’t take pictures if you don’t understand what is happening. But not having taken any picture doesn’t mean that I don’t keep the images of those days safe in my mind. 

"At the end I didn't meet Franca, and Michaela was in Spain on a study trip. Can you believe it? You are one of the few people who was actually born in Berlin and you miss it. For a stupid study trip to Spain."Cristina has moved to West Berlin to learn German. She is young and everything is exciting. Even the occasional trip to East Berlin. Then on the afternoon of the 9th November 1989, history happens.STORY AND SOUND DESIGN: Cristina MarrasVOICE: Cristina Marras and Stefano Olla (voice messages)[26/09/2019]

So, I guess this is the suspended time we keep on talking about, a time that is not here nor there. Like the time...Text, production and sound design by Cristina MarrasPhoto by Mohammadreza Asherloo on Unsplash

Museums as machines to create stories. Sometimes things happen, on a summer afternoon, when there is nothing better to do.This came back to me from some forgotten lane of my past, after listening to a lecture given in Melbourne by Rory Hyde in August 2015.Voice, words, production and sound design by M. Cristina MarrasOpera singer courtesy of Ramston Soprano riffs courtesy of tweedledee3 Music Epidemic sound[13 Aug 2015]

ON AIR FEST OFFICIAL SELECT 2022 When I think about the dark, I think about a game that I used to play as a kid. I am here, in a house that is not mine. I’m here with my friend, I’ll call him Mario (I’ll tell you later why). I’m 11, he is one year younger than me.Text, Voice and Production by M. Cristina Marras[10/06/2021]

Sarah Geis' Audio Playground. assignment #20Eulogize an object you have lost. Guest prompt from Zak Rosen.EulogyAudioPlaygroundSoundrich[28/07/2021]