Speaking Cables [EXPANDED] debuts in its extended version, inclusive and accessible to the blind and visually impaired community. In an atmosphere suspended between ritual and play, the voice is transformed into sign, space, and relationship through sounds, silences, and dialogues. The innovative sound choreography expands the listening experience, involving the audience in an immersive performance. Thanks to a paper storyboard with tactile maps, the blind audience can follow the narration in real-time. A system of signals sent via bone-conduction headphones guides the sensory path, making the work fully accessible. Speaking Cables redefines the concept of fruition, transforming a voice into a shared experience between listening, imagination, and stage presence.
Agnese Delia Banti is a sound artist, performer, and overtone singer based in Bologna. She collaborates with various personalities and realities of the performance and sound scene. With a multifaceted interest in sound and music, her artistic activity gravitates around composition for space, choral voice, soundscape studies, research on the gesture-sound relationship, traditional music repertoires, and the collaborative dimension of the creative process. Among other things, he is dedicated to transmitting harmonic singing through moments of collective vocal sharing. His works have been performed in Italy, Ireland, Greece, England, Portugal, the United States, Switzerland and Canada. He collects tapes and spinning tops with the idea of playing them all.
Collaborations include composer Roberto Laneri; the electronic music collective ECB~; the Tempo Reale Centre for Musical Production, research and Didactics; choreographer Marta Bellu and dancer Laura Lucioli as part of “I versi delle mani”; composers Theodoros Lotis and Dimitris Savva; Andrea Trona, musician and music computer scientist with whom -among other things- he developed the “Speaking Cables” device; actress and author Marta Vitalini; Grabinski Point and musician and composer Stefano Pilia; artists Laura Agnusdei, Elena Mattioli and Flavia Zaganelli as part of the Bologna for Palestine initiatives.
By and with: Agnese Banti
Live electronics: Andrea Trona
Visual and sound design, direction, dramaturgy, music: Agnese Banti
Artistic collaboration, musical informatics, technical direction: Andrea Trona
Collaboration on dramaturgy, direction and staging: Marta Vitalini
Technical and lighting consultancy: Antonio Rinaldi
Artistic meetings by: FUND Yan Duyvendak, Camille Louis, Ana Pi
Accessibility in collaboration with: Giuseppe Comuniello, Dalila D’Amico, Camilla Guarino
Project supported by: FONDO, network for emerging creativity (first edition, coordinated by Santarcangelo dei Teatri and realised with AMAT, Centrale Fies, ERT – Emilia Romagna Teatro Fondazione, Fabbrica Europa, I Teatri di Reggio Emilia, L’arboreto – Teatro Dimora | Centro di residenza Emilia Romagna, Operaestate Festival Veneto / CSC Centro per la Scena Contemporanea, Ravenna Teatro, Teatro Pubblico Campano, Teatro Pubblico Pugliese, TSU Teatro Stabile dell’Umbria, Triennale Milano Teatro), ORBITA|Spellbound Centro Nazionale di Produzione della Danzananellell’ambito di Creazioni accessibili 2024 e Romaeuropa Festival.
With the support of: LAMINARIE in the sphere of creative residencies 2025 – DOM la cupola del Pilastro and Grabinski Point.
