Crickets in Scopello reimagined by Jeff Dungfelder.
"To have seen Italy without having seen Sicily is to not have seen Italy at all, for Sicily is the clue to everything."
— Goethe
"The foundation of this piece of music is based on a field recording (by Tenute Plaia Scopello) of crickets in Sicily at 1 am (creating musical melodies with their wings). The bottom of a cricket wing is covered with teeth-like ridges that make it rough, and the upper surface of the wing is like a scraper. When crickets rub the upper and lower parts of their wings together, they create a chirping sound called “stridulating." Listening closely, I discovered the stridulating melodies reveal a delicate beautiful world, layer upon layer. Hence the name of this piece, "Pentimento" (a visible trace of earlier painting beneath a layer or layers of paint on a canvas).
Pentimento is a Mediterranean requiem of sorts - an act of remembrance for all the many poets, writers, philosophers, intellectuals, architects an
