Ghost Voices unfolds as a 28-minute live sound performance within a circular space, where the audience sits around a central area immersed in a quadraphonic environment. A performer enters and gradually positions four speakers at the centre of the circle. From these speakers emerge fishermen’s shouts, mourning laments, and traditional songs — archival voices from Southern Italy and Sardinia — blended and transformed through electronic and acoustic composition.
The performer physically engages with the speakers and the disembodied voices, creating a living dialogue between presence and absence, between what is near and what is distant. The work seeks to rewrite geography through body and sound, exploring themes of origin, belonging, migration, and the shadow of war.
A recorded voice-over features poems by Patrizia Cavalli, Georg Trakl, and Morten Søndergaard, weaving through the soundscape like fragile traces of memory and language. Ghost Voices is conceived as a contemporary ritual: a threshold where the living and the dead briefly coexist