Concert for Hydrophone and Submerged Voices. 

Starting from the idea that water is the element that best retains sediment and ghosts, displacing them and allowing the lost memories of places to proliferate, this project seeks to bring to the surface the submerged aspects of oral knowledge—marginalized and silenced by dominant narratives, always written by the victors.

Minor stories—embodied, unhistoricized, and therefore mysterious—are activated within the landscape through an expanded dramaturgy, drawing from ethnographic cues and a collective act of speculative fabulation. The intent was to assimilate elements gathered through site-specific practice into a single interdisciplinary and transformative gesture.

The sonic material—voices and field recordings—was captured between the Abbey and the banks of the Nera River. The costume was inspired by the observation and study of the metamorphosis of the dragonfly, an inhabitant of the river. The text is drawn from magical formulas of the local witchcraft tradition, which have survived the neo-rationalist project of invisibilization.

Through the reactivation and rewriting of place-based memory, new impulses are released—fueling the struggles to come.