Between the two coasts, there is a choir of children who are moving from East to West, from South to North. Their breath is life, joy, playfulness. But it is also suffering, pain, agony and even…death.

The choir sings the quasi metaphysical sound of the vowel a, the maximum level of openess, and then whispers; then sings two arab words: bahr e harb, sea and war. Same letters, opposing meanings. Then it shouts.

The young voices are divided in four groups, as the cardinal points, and create a play of sounds who chase one another from East to West, from South to North.

Per coro di voci bianche e ensemble

Registrazione a cura di Andrea Ferrario www.bebopstudio.it
Montaggio e mix: Alessandro Ponti

Voci bianche della Corale Arnatese, dirette da Monica Balabio
Stefano Grasso: percussioni
Cristiano Pomante: vibrafono
Alessandro Ponti: organo Hammond
Lorenzo Gentili-Tedeschi: violino
Paolo Fumagalli: viola
Giorgio Casati: violoncello