The essay invesigates the multiple impacts of archives’ material in the life and work of the Italian composer, director and visual artist Roberto Paci Dalò (1962). International archive-researches, drawings, videos and pictures captured during the numerous travels, audio- and video-portraits are the sources of Paci Dalò’s soundscapes: starting from the musci album Napoli (1993), an aoucustic portait of the city, to Ye Shanghai (2013), which invesitgates through archive material the hidden reality of the jewish Ghetto during WWII, to the site-specific installations De bello Gallico (2011) and Greuelmärchen. Starting point of this work is a recent, before unreleased interview between Paci Dalò and the author. The conversation is dedicated to the archivial turn, considering archives ad tangible storages and as a intermedial modus operandi as well, with a specific interest in “artists’ archive”, where the author is object and director of the material at the same time.