Ground-to-Sea Sound Collective born in the 2013, created by the musicians Fabio Mina and Emiliano Battistini and by the video maker Luca Mina. The project goal is the creation of site-specific concerts, made of the amplification and the live elaboration of a place sounds and field recording: the landscape sounds become like an ensemble to interact with. This artistic action is based on the discover of a specify place sounds, originating new possibilities. The field recording is, in this case, much more beyond the documentation. Mixing together natural interests, valorization of cultural heritage and music and starting from the town of Rimini, Italy, Ground-to-Sea takes the sea and the places aroun it as its first inspiration source. Acoustic waves like sea waves: If the sea makes a travel possible, across it, the sound itself travels and unifies far and close lands. In the Sea we find a huge sounds library, sounds made of water, sand, between the backwashes, waves and the air, which changes its shape. We feel the sound clearly when we are close to the source, other sounds come loud even from far away, but we need particular microphones and equipment to perceive other sounds, the more hidden ones. Furthermore the Sea can make resonate architectonic elements, and natural elements, hit or touched lightly by its strength, making his “orchestra” even larger.

In the Ground-to-Sea approach to the musical instruments is fundamental the improvisation as an act of extemporary composition, both as expressive method to communicate sincerely what’s happening musically, both as way to find a line, to fix points to move from. Important is also the role of extra European music, that after studies creates a rich source. The instruments possibilities are also extended with live electronics, the digital elaboration is used as way to find new sonorities, with consciousness.