The composer and sound artist Alessandro Bosetti invites the audience to an immersive and intimate experience centered on sonic memory. Through a series of listening protocols, mnemonic exercises, and auditory meditations, he opens the doors to a palace of sonic memory—a place that is both real and imaginary, where sounds, memories, and life stories intertwine.

The performance unfolds through closeness and confidentiality: words are whispered directly into the listener’s ear through individual, almost secret interactions, while an invisible yet enveloping sound score spreads throughout the space. Layers of sounds, rustlings, sighs, melodic fragments, and voices both near and distant emerge from a process of exploration and excavation within the sonic memories of a group of participants who were involved in the project from its inception.

Gradually, the audience members themselves become carriers and transmitters of these sonic memories. After receiving brief initial instructions whispered into their ears, they begin whispering to one another throughout the performance, spreading fragments of sonic memory through a collective and fragile chain of transmission.

This is a poetic exploration of the relationship between sound, memory, and identity. Some sounds carry profound stories; others awaken buried sensations; still others become material for reinvention.

What does an unforgettable sound sound like?

In this work, sonic composition becomes an act of transmission, active listening, and reconstruction. It gives shape not only to memory, but also to forgetting, loss, and reverie. The experience becomes a journey through the sensitive territory between memory, imagination, and auditory hallucination.

Created as part of the Short Theatre Festival and the European project Radio That Matters, the performance was developed in close dialogue with a community of blind and visually impaired participants from A.S.P. Sant’Alessio – Margherita di Savoia in Rome, whose voices and stories form the very architecture of this shared memory.

The project has since taken on new forms at Festival Parallèle in Marseille, at L’Histoire à venir at Théâtre Garonne in Toulouse, and at Triennale Milano.