Memory is a sound installation created by Tempo Reale as part of the exhibition “Renzo Piano Building Workshop. Le città visibili”, which took place at the Milan Triennale from May 22 to September 16, 2007.

«The installation is ideally inspired by the “sound memory” of Renzo Piano, and it has been realized through a structure that acoustically underlines the geometry of the exhibition.

The musical content is characterized by a series of actions, articulated in multiple layers through the movement of sounds in space and composed of different types of materials. A series of “musical memories” arise from the sound structure: Berio, Boulez, Nono, but also De André and other Genoese traditional songs; these fragments interact with events more properly linked to work and natural environments, with a special attention to the sonic world of the sea, included in several different forms. Moreover, some particular sonic objects return regularly in the soundscape, acting almost as thematic elements and metrically scanning the path of visitors.
Memory is not actually a “musical composition”, it appears more like a polyhedric and surprising stream of sounds, able to draw the attention of listeners or simply to lead them to another key to the reading of the exhibition».

[Source: description of Memory in Renzo Piano. Visible cities‘ exhibition catalogue]