GLOAM II continues my exploration of sound as a threshold between internal and external realities. Following GLOAM I, which investigated Dante’s Inferno as a fragmented space of disrupted language, disorientation, and acoustic suspension, this second chapter places two performers in a spatially divided constellation: two bodies, two positions, two siblings-separated by a wall. A boundary that blocks sight but permits listening.
On one side: WANT. On the other: FEAR. Two existential states articulated through movement, resonance, tension, and sonic response. Between them emerges an acoustic interaction:
a cautious negotiation, a reacting-in-uncertainty. Drum, guitar, and voice form provisional languages.
What is heard are tunes of the unspoken, hovering between musical interpolations and echoes of the past that create a sense of proximity, familiarity and distortion.
The dividing wall becomes the metaphorical element of a projection surface, a filter for a shared contemporary condition: the fractured perception of self and other within mediated systems.
WANT becomes perpetual exposure: the need to be seen, acknowledged, validated.
FEAR emerges as subtle disappearance, a strategy of retreat, avoidance, controlled silence.
These dynamics are translated into an acoustic field of feedback and response. The boundary between private and public collapses. A sound architecture unfolds where emotional states find resonance. References to the Inferno and quotations from music history linger as structural memory and hauntological traces, creating a space of suspended meaning.
The space itself becomes a threshold: between the loud and the unspoken, comprehension and sensation, between what is heard and what recedes.
Moments of silence enter as the leading sonical element that carry the speechlessness of the individual as well as the society.
This piece explores the resonance of fragmented visibility, limited acoustic expression, and articulation. Performers are not characters, but attitudes: two sonic bodies navigating a world where WANT and FEAR are no longer fleeting emotions, but spatial, bodily manifestations of memory.
What remains is a listening space-a reverberation of the unsaid. A presence boiling just beneath the surface.
GLOAM II is an exploration of speechlessness, moving from the intimate private to the shared collective.
GLOAM II
Sound Performance @Susudio Space Vienna
45 min.
accompanied by Quentin (Drums)
10/2025