Davide Tidoni – The Sound of Normalisation

The Sound of Normalisation is a collection of audio recordings and a book of transcriptions documenting the sounding culture of the ultras group Brescai 1911 in relation to modern football and the wave of repressive measures targeted at organised supporters groups.

The recordings were made over a period of fifteen years and cover: The creation uses and meanings of the chants used by the ultras. Group principles and collective identity. Audience participation and the process of social exclusion from the stadium. Police repression and the political implication of the chants. The evolution of drumming in the stadium in relation to the drums ban-order of 2007.

The Sound of Normalisation is one of a number of publications released during the Sound Diaries/SARU exhibition.