Gaia Ginevra Giorgi

In 1994, a flood drowned a radio archive and corrupted the magnetic tapes of a voice. The voice disappears from the damaged and deteriorated reels, witnessing the fragile consistency of memory and the precariousness of its archives, which do not present themselves as solid and persistent structures but as precarious and temporary landscapes. The discovery of the reels, many of which have undergone irreversible degradation processes, opens the way to haunting that archive—not to re-establish it, repair it, or reintegrate it into a positive regime of visibility and permanence, but to create the conditions for its reappearance, desiring and spectral.

The auto-ethnography of haunting informs a process of performative-sonic creation that does not aim to circulate the vanished voice of the past again, nor does it invoke the anachronistic return of the ghost. Haunted is a sonic dramaturgy of memory, which pours into the subtle circuits of the analogical a polyphony of field recordings, letter recordings, dream engravings, voices, soundscapes extracted from home movies, distorted radio frequencies, interferences, and live sounds.

The sound fragments pour into samplers, magnetic tapes, antennas capturing the electromagnetic spectrum, ultrasonic detectors, hydrophones, and contact microphones. Starting from the paradoxical rewriting of the self, Haunted narrates a phantom archive—both material and spectral—that oscillates on the threshold between archaeology and imagination.