How to fall in love with football for its sound: a sound ethnography

Sound designers do it different, we all know that. And Italians love football, it’s another dogma that we do not doubt upon.

But when I met Davide Tidoni and his project called The Sound of Normalization I thought that, well…this was really a different way to love football and work with sound at the same time. I wanted to know more about it and I’m sure you want to know more, too….

Since 2002 Davide is investigating the football supporters subculture, dominated by the use of sound as a real weapon. He documented all his work recording the football chants and organized sounds during football matches and here what he told us about his amazing field recording experience.

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