Plane Talea is an archive of anonymous voices that composer Alessandro Bosetti has been collecting for several years.
The archive preserves tens of thousands of audio files, short vocal emissions – utterances – all or almost all of them barely shorter than a word endowed with meaning, stored in folders that specify their characteristics but omit all biographical details about the person who originally produced them.
Each time Alessandro Bosetti performs the archive he finds himself going through it in new directions, recomposing the vocal fragments without ever altering their sound nature.
Plane/Talea performances take place through a multi-channel sound system in which the audience is immersed, with chairs distributed chaotically in the space
Each sound performance is preceded by a few days of recordings during which, through a call for participation, anyone is invited to give fragments of their voice during individual recording sessions.
In the time following the individual recordings, the memory of the encounter with the voice donors slowly fades away as the composer comes to know new vocal creatures, endowed with personalities of their own and capable of leading an autonomous existence.
Each Plane/Talea performance is a walk through a vocal landscape, a community of sound beings or if you will, an imaginary and impossible and nevertheless extremely real choir. All sounds in this landscape are exclusively vocal.
The archive of voices now contains approximately seventy voices and continues to expand.

Listen to Plana/Talea #35 on Fango Radio: