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The Roads Are Not Innocent S​/​T (mdfm008)

by Microdeform

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Drone 1 01:14
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The Roads Are Not innocent (V1) 03:21
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Drone 2 01:16
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The Roads Are Not Innocent (V2) 03:12
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about

'The Roads Are not Innocent' is a short documentary film directed, edited and produced by Giulio Gobbetti.

Awarded a Special Mention at the New Reveries: the Power of Archive Now DocHouse Competition 2020. Festival Selection: Lift Off Sessions 2020.

Synopsis. Roads, railways and bridges were, in the height of the colonial era, hailed as emblems of modernity. In reality, colonial powers used infrastructures to exert control over their colonies. Today, this history has been sanitised: although colonisation is often condemned, there is still a narrative that sees Britain and other countries as the great exporters of progress, forgetting that progress was instrumental in both propelling the colonial drive whilst maintaining control over the territory. Through the use of archive material, The Roads are not Innocent looks at the power of infrastructure in an usual and thought-provoking way.

About the music:

All the sounds in these pieces were created from various field recordings of traffic, vehicles and engines from my personal archive, to tie in with the conceptual elements of the film relating to roads, travel and transportation.

I was looking to create a sense of tension and unease with the sparse, rhythmic pieces as well providing a certain energy and feeling of motion.

The pieces presented here are the original unaltered pieces that I provided to Giulio, which he then edited and spliced in amongst the existing soundtrack elements of the archival footage to work into the context of the film.

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released December 12, 2020

mdfm008

Music by Liam McConaghy
Recorded, mixed and mastered 20-22 June 2020 at Aphelion Labs
Commissioned and created for the short film 'The Roads Are Not Innocent' by Giullio Gobbetti
Cover art by Liam McConaghy, using layered stills from the film

www.ggobbetti.com/portfolio/the-roads-are-not-innocent/

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Microdeform Bristol, UK

The experimental/ambient music of Liam McConaghy
cosmic oscillations
mesmeric dark sorcery shrouded in mist
memory recall
drift slowly into the ether
contact: microdeform@gmail.com

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