Hello and welcome to The Sound of Silence, the first season of The Peeping Archivist’s podcast The Conversation.
For this first podcast series, we wanted to put words on an art too often, and unjustifiably, considered mute: silent cinema.
Silent cinema has long been a priority for film archivists worldwide. And for good reason: at least 90% of films produced during the silent era are considered lost. But it’s not just enough to save the films; it’s about sharing them too. Since silent films were never truly silent (as in, they were almost always accompanied by live musical scores), it becomes particularly important for archivists to help preserve and present the silent film experience as a whole.
That’s why The Peeping Archivist decided to speak to some of the finest silent film accompanists of our generation, to find out how they work and how we as archivists can work with them to bring to life the magic of silent films!
For this episode, we discussed transmission and cultural sphere with Nico Dalla Vecchia and Luca Leprotti, two young Italian musicians invited for the first time by the festival Il Cinema Ritrovato in 2018.
Nico and Luca met during their studies in Musica Applicata alle Immagini at the Conservatorio di Rovigo, and then moved to Bologna to work at Modulab, a sound lab for audiovisual productions. They subsequently founded their band LAEND.
This episode is an ode to Bologna, its inhabitants, and how they have successfully passed down their love for culture, cinema and music, from generations to generations.
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