Pietro Sammarco
Sound Instructor
Bio
Pietro Sammarco is a sound producer who listens with curiosity and improvises with found materials and field recordings. He is currently doing sound design for a multichannel horror movie about a ghost town in Kitsault, B.C., and composing a soundscape about elementary students designing a chocolate bar with Big Rock Candy Mountain. He has taught at ECU, UBC, SFU, Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre and the VPL’s Inspiration Lab. He studied soundscape composition with Barry Truax and Hildegard Westerkamp.
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Research Interests
Pietro’s interests are in waste as a material and social thing: the spatial practices, material possibilities, and social meanings gathered around waste when encountered through art practice. He has extended this research into the City of Vancouver's efforts to control urban noise, and the public role of the recording studio, and how composing with waste can bring together people and places normally kept separate. His master’s thesis explored “disposability” and “responsibility” as ways that recording practices negate and engage the social production of Vancouver’s livability and the immateriality of the digital realm on which it depends as a global city.