In autumn 2025, soundscapes.live will bring together ten authors from Italy and Switzerland in cooperation with Sud Sonico. In contributions written especially for the project, the writers will give voice to mythological and legendary figures.
Fabiano Alborghetti (CH): ‘Anagrafe degli eroi senza nome’ (Register of nameless heroes) - a monologue for all those to whom no legend or myth has ever been consecrated.
Maria Grazia Calandrone (I): ‘EXTÁS, Teresa d'Avila’ - a monologue about the rapture of St Teresa.
Zora del Buono (CH): ‘Lycosa tarantula’ - a monologue of tarantulas, whose bite is capable of triggering a dancing frenzy, and who foresee a great drought.
Andrea Donaera (I): ‘Grima’ - a monologue on Mallatrone, a wooden figure that can still be seen today in the Chiesa da San Francesco in Gallipoli and is known for its sinister grin.
Begoña Feijoo Fariña (CH): ‘Il coraggio di Enea’ (The Courage of Aeneas) - a monologue in homage to a father figure who ‘like Aeneas on the ship in the middle of the sea, watched over the journey and the sleep of those travelling with him.’
Doris Femminis (CH): ‘Carissima anima’ - a monologue for the countless possibilities available to a soul for concrete expression in the individual.
Michele Mari (I): ‘Scarecrow’ - a monologue about the nightmarish horror of scarecrows that symbolise existential emptiness.
Andrea Martina (I): ‘Dentro una lacrima’ (Inside a tear) - a monologue with the last thoughts of Argos, the dying hunting dog of Odysseus.
Marko Miladinovic (CH): ‘Milarepadino - Poeta, Ladro, Assassino, Santo’ - a monologue for a poet, thief, murderer and saint.
Carmen Nolasco (I): ‘Le parole della Sibilla’ - a monologue for the Cumaean Sibyl, who longs for redemption from her waiting position and wants to be heard in the present.
The literary contributions will be performed for the first time at the AVANT Festival in Lecce in October 2025. The TOSUNIAN collective will interpret the texts in the format of a literary-musical soundscape. A first reading performance will follow on 11 December 2025 in Zurich as part of the ‘Zurigo in italiano’ initiative.
STREET BALLADS III
Authors from Switzerland: Fabiano Alborghetti, Zora del Buono, Begoña Feijoo Fariña, Doris Femminis, Marko Miladinović
Authors from Italy: Maria Grazia Calandrone, Andrea Donaera, Michele Mari, Andrea Martina, Carmen Nolasco
Realisation Soundscape: Caterina Dufì, Filippo Caniato, Marco Saracino, Matilde Davoli, Daniele Carcassi
Project management: Serge Honegger, Manuela Casari
Project partner Sud Sonico: Ludovico Esposito
A project by soundscapes.live