ANCIENT VOICES
OF THE ISLAND

The main purpose of this project has been to collect sounds that represent the island of Kefalonia, ranging from expressions from nature to human traditions, and to embed them in minimalist music compositions on piano and autoharp. This working approach is taken in order to create a meditative sound experience whose purpose is to bring out a voiced identity of the island through an “artistic repository of sounds”.

The soundscape that is evoked in this collection is intended to take inspiration from soundwalks, where our ears are progressively exposed to every sound around us and whose main objective is to stimulate an active listening experience in and to the surrounding environment.

In this performance, the sounds presented are specific to the island of Kefalonia and embrace a full range of landscape variations, going from rural to urban, from traditional to industrial, and are intentionally processed in order to create a sound art piece.

This project has been funded by and developed at the Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture, Kefalonia, Greece.