There are insurmountable boundaries, closed to most human beings. The 38th parallel that divides the two Koreas, Area 51, the parent groups on WhatsApp: unexplored places, oases inhabited by mythological characters, often only idealized. Today, there is a tool to unlock the secrets hidden in Boomer messages and it is called reel. As in Aladdin, to access this cave of wonders, just type on social media two words: Vocali Volanti.
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Scrolling Instagram and TikTok, you will come across more and more often those that apparently look like GTA V gameplay. The script is always the same: a sports car runs on a kaleidoscopic track, suspended over the city of Los Santos, a metropolis where the events of GTA V are set. For fans of the gaming world, they might seem outdated content: the jewel of the Rockstar Games, a blockbuster, is in fact released in 2013, a geological era in the world of video games.
The finger is about to skip the reel, but the audio, for once on, turns on the magic novelty. Galeotto fu the side button of the iPhone.
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Moments of silence, the audio starts simultaneously with the descent of the supercar on the track: it can start a great journey in the world of the Internet. “Eeeh… gruppo delle mamme scusate; Buongiorno a tutte le mamme del Uossappe della nostra comitiva”: like the car in the race, the neurons slam from one side to the other but it is impossible to detach from this explosive cocktail of words and images.
“Io oggi mi sono andata a prendere le bambine a scuola, simm jut a cas ambress ambress pkke e criatur evn a mangià. E verev ca s’ rattavn semb in testa. Cìagg truat? E cap re criatur chin e prucchj!”
Need an explanation? No, it’s perfect, like a Fontana, a Pollock, a Burri: absence of rationality, just pure and epidermal emotion in front of nonsense.
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Addicts in an instant: In the throes of insomnia, clicking on the profile of Vocali Volanti is the worst thing that could happen. It opens a universe made of hundreds of rides, a trip that expands to family chats, phone calls with call centers, audio with compari and commari. The tiktoknauta sinks into a mine of neologisms such as:
- “Il papà di mia nuora è orofacio, oreficio… c’ha… fa l’ofrago”: executor of works in precious metals and gems.
- “So ‘na vecchia volpa di queste scuole”: of those who have developed wit and cunning in the school world.
- “Mo stasera quando dobbiamo andare a casa, dobbiamo mettere il rigatone, sennò non sappiamo arrivare": electronic device that shows the driver the way to follow.
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Vocali Volanti is Mediterranean in purity, it allows you to enter the homes of Italians not on tiptoe, but with a taut leg: in those audio we recognize the aunt who crushes our cheeks, the grandmother who fills you with carbohydrates, the unhappy jokes of great uncle.
“Quanti amori nascono così/ti prendono e non c’è modo di poter scappare via”, sang the Vate D'Alessio, so it is for Vocali Volanti: you don’t know how you meet them, but you spend nights together and do not notice that the sun has risen. We just have to wait to see them again in their scrolling.
Illustration by Gloria Dozio - Acrimònia Studios
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