TANZ SEDIMENT

Performance, 2021

It usually happened during the tobacco harvest in summer: Women were “stung by the tarantula spider”. They fell into inner agitation and madness. Tarantism occurred in Apulia in southern Italy until the 1960s. Those affected organised healing rituals to free their bodies from the (symbolic) spider poison through frenetic Tarantella music and dance. At the same time, they gave a voice to suffering and oppression.

Taking inspiration from this practice, in her work Tanz Sediment Alessandra Eramo creates a new trance music ritual, she explores the freedom that resists in the female voice, evoking sonic memories like a river sediment. She traces the wild, natural and vulnerable voice, which is not only an instrument, but it is an archaic sonic territory to be disclosed in the modern human body. The Performance consists of a hypnotic sound collage with voice, text, frame drum and field recordings.

TANZ SEDIMENT

Performance, 2021

It usually happened during the tobacco harvest in summer: Women were “stung by the tarantula spider”. They fell into inner agitation and madness. Tarantism occurred in Apulia in southern Italy until the 1960s. Those affected organised healing rituals to free their bodies from the (symbolic) spider poison through frenetic Tarantella music and dance. At the same time, they gave a voice to suffering and oppression.

Taking inspiration from this practice, in her work Tanz Sediment Alessandra Eramo creates a new trance music ritual, she explores the freedom that resists in the female voice, evoking sonic memories like a river sediment. She traces the wild, natural and vulnerable voice, which is not only an instrument, but it is an archaic sonic territory to be disclosed in the modern human body. The Performance consists of a hypnotic sound collage with voice, text, frame drum and field recordings.