Tierra Eterna is a collaborative project by Edvina Fahlqvist and Christos Papasotiriou exploring the social and cultural similarities between two significant traditional music forms: Spanish Flamenco and Greek Rebetiko. They also collaborated with Barcelona-based flamenco singer Laura Mateo for this project. It investigates the roots of both musical traditions and presents them as an audio narrative highlighting the elements that connect them. The composition’s main idea explores Intangible Heritage and its link to the sounds reflecting each culture’s journey. Through everyday life, music, and the ephemeral elements that shape our world, the project portrays the realities of these communities. Developing these sounds through new media allows the artists to establish new connections, create fresh interpretations, and contribute to the ongoing evolution of the music.

This composition uses the following sounds:

• jensfelger — Berber Music Dessert South Marokko
• Robinhood76 — 06009 wheels on dirt road - looping
• tomhannen — Turkish Bazaar market ambient sounds
• genghisattenborough — Imam Oct 06
• compoargentino — Castañuela plástica con manija - Plastic handle castanets
• barcelonetasonora — Flotante - Castañuelas Cranc
• RutgerMuller — Indian_Gungroos_Ankle_Bells_Improv
• Sauron974 — Cloth Flaps
• acclivity — CalecheDownAlley
• Daphne_in_Wonderland — Footsteps on sand
• AListair_Hamilton_241200 — Footsteps on sand
• rucisko — sheep 01
• RandomRecord19 — Original Grammophon Noise
• vincentmalstaf — Horses
• dobroide — 20150331_08.calm.sunset
• dobroide — 20130718_cicadas.03.wav
• dobroide — 20060616.crickets.guadiamar03.flac
• Thalamus_Lab — Sea waves
• Allyss — Ferry engine room
• felix.blume — Seagulls screaming in Istanbul
• Carlvus — CFX-20130331-UK-DorsetHarbour09
• Sotiris_Laskaris — Small Greek Harbour
• Sotiris_Laskaris — Small Greek Harbour Far
• Sotiris_Laskaris — Small Greek Harbour Idle Ferry Loading
• Bmbooooooooooooo — Sound of Mediterranean
• surrey_film — Waves on pebbles CU with Ciccadas BG
• richwise — Fog horn as heard from shore
• felix.blume — ship horns in the harbour of valparaiso
• efahlqvist — rebetiko classical guitar and male vocal recorded in studio
• efahlqvist — rebetiko classical guitar recorded in studio
• efahlqvist — flamenco female vocal recorded in studio

Artist bio

Edvina Fahlqvist is a Swedish sound artist and composer based in Spain. Her work investigates the intersections of environment, memory and cultural heritage through experimental approaches to sound composition. In her work she creates ambient and noise soundscapes, using elements of hyper processed organic found sounds and field recordings that weaves together a complex, living sonic world that explores the boundaries between the synthetic and the human, the mediated and the lived experience. Christos Pa-pasotiriou is a Greek artist working in Barcelona. His work focuses on the notion of manufacture displayed into a broad human network. Through installations he attempts to create constructions, images and sounds dragged out of the public landscape. Each artwork emerges from external experiences and situations rela-ted always to a specific environment.