WAR WHISPERS

WAR WHISPERS, invi­tes you on a mul­ti-laye­red sound expe­di­ti­on: against the back­drop of his­to­ri­cal archi­tec­tu­re, whe­re power and ever­y­day life meet, the public space beco­mes a lis­tening space. Sounds com­po­sed in real time mer­ge with the metro­po­li­tan sound­scape as the musi­ci­ans move through the city­scape. At the cent­re is the haun­ting voice of poet Etel Adnan, who­se text ‘To be in a time of war’ is ‘whispe­red’ direct­ly into the audience’s ears via head­pho­nes. WAR WHISPERS explo­res the ques­ti­on of how peo­p­le live in the ten­si­on bet­ween ever­y­day life and vio­lence. The result is a fra­gi­le web of sound that draws the lis­te­ner into an acou­stic hid­den object: some­ti­mes clo­se and per­so­nal, some­ti­mes over­whel­ming and ali­en, bet­ween the lived pre­sent and the rever­be­ra­ti­ons of wars not far away.