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Lament for Asinara Part II.

from Lament for Asinara by Sándor Vály

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Lament for Asinara

The project has been created at the invitation of Maurizio Coccia and Roberto Follessa, curators of the "Contemporary festival di arte e avanguardia" in Sardinia (Donori CA).

"Lament for Asinara" is a project about the collective history of Sardinia and Austro-Hungary during the First World War. In 1915, some 50 000 prisoners of war left Serbian territory on foot, of whom the remaining 24 000 eventually embarked for the prisoner of war camp on the island of Asinara. Most of the prisoners died in miserable conditions from cholera to cannibalism.

The recordings were made locally on the island of Asinara with a zoom microphone. Sounds of farm machinery, sheet metal, strings, boat engines etc. In the concert I worked with self-made noise instruments.

The lamentation is a World War I sound recording from Hungary that I used in reverse.

I presented the first part of the album in concert on 19 August 2021 in Donori, Sardinia.

The second track is a studio version based on the original zoom footage. The piano theme of the piece was played by Éva Polgár.

!The recording exists only in digital version!


I took the original lamentations to the island of Asinara ( wireless speaker ) and buried them in the ground behind the ossuary there. The song played for another 12 hours from underground.

Special thanks:
Nea Lindgrén, Éva Polgár, Júlia Heéger, Maurizio Coccia, Roberto Follessa, Alberta Follessa, Davide Mariani, Mersia Carboni.

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from Lament for Asinara, released December 7, 2021
Composed By Sándor Vály

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Sándor Vály (1968) is an audiovisual artist born in Hungary and currently living in Finland and Italy. Vály’s art is characterised by conceptual and philosophical dimension, which he uses to operate in the field of contemporary art. His work ranges from music to cinema, performance art and literature. Vály creates holistic works of art that form extensive entities ... more

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