Lagoonal Echoes - Broadcast "Interferences" by Centre for Research Architecture on Montez Press Radio (28.09.2025)

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As part of the Interference broadcast day organised within the Reverberations exhibition by the Centre for Research Architecture, Riccardo Rizzetto held Lagoonal Echoes; a listening session exploring how sound can testify to the entanglements between infrastructures and ecologies.

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Emerging from the ongoing research project Eroded Ecologies, the piece investigates how anthropic impact is inscribed into the materiality of bodies of water through infrastructures, agricultural practices, and industrial transformations. Rather than treating sound as background or illustration, Rizzetto works with it as evidence — a way of disclosing the multiple temporalities and agencies that shape watery environments. Listening, in this sense, becomes an act of witnessing: attuning to what usually escapes the eye, and to what infrastructures often seek to erase.

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The session unfolds through three comparative recordings:
- In the Grand Canal during the Festa del Redentore, the arrival of an ambulance boat is registered underwater before reaching the human ear, revealing the anticipatory resonance of the lagoon.
- In Scolo Lusore at Porto Marghera, where the Brenta’s waters are diverted through the petrochemical zone, anthropogenic saturation collapses all differences into a single industrial vibration.
- Upstream in Bassano del Grappa, gurgling currents and fish squeaks animate the river with a vitality absent above the surface.

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Together, these vibroscapes invite us to listen differently; to hear water not as a neutral medium but as a resonant archive of anticipation, erasure, and fragile persistence.

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On the occasion of this broadcast, Rizzetto released Eroded Ecologies, an album of vibroscapes expanding the research through sound and listening; tracing the acoustic signatures of the Venetian Lagoon and its extended waterscape.

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Broadcast live on Montez Press Radio on 28 September 2025, from St James Hatcham Church, London SE14 6A, as part of Reverberations: Interference, a day-long programme exploring how spatial practices reverberate across political, ecological, and cultural terrains.

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