The idea of this work comes from the sensation of loneliness that I feel inside the crowd. In past I tried to know as many people as I could in collective situation (concerts, politic manifestations, trains, etc.) in order to make myself part of something, but this sensation of unknown and of impossibility to know still remains. Then I started creating my own crowd of strangers. I recorded people of different age and culture in public situations such as popular squares, trains, or in the historic centre of the italian cities I was living in: Bologna and Venice.

All these people were strangers to me before I asked to record them; all these people are asked to reply the same questions about themselves, about past and future, about their feelings in crowded situations.

I chose 30 people from them and I put them inside my sound artwork.

Each voice is a part of the crowd but has to be clear and unique so I decided to take off from the records my voice (the questions of the interview) and the background sounds (the situation in which I recorded the person).

The installation is made of a bundle of 30 black cables displayed on the floor in the form of a root system, every cable ends with a speaker that reproduces a different record. At first the audience only hears the crowd but then bending down you can switch from a voice to another trying to know the people of the crowd, trying to understand people’s experience, as I did while recording them.

The voices of people are physically connected in the bundle, this union stands for the unconscious connection of energies and lives of people in which I believe.