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.