version with subtitles

La main coupée (La mano tagliata) is another version of the piece with noises Quant-à-soi and connects two acoustic perspectives: a space for the noises and a space for the voice.
Four speakers, placed on shelves on the walls of a first room, emit at high-volume a series of white parasite noises and sound interferences interrupted with silences. The appearance of each mini-sequence is a surprise, a clash for the listener. The arrangement of the speakers produced an inclusive and disturbing presence that we can’t escape, but the high-volume diffusion offers to discover the richness of textures.
Further, across a hallway, in a smaller room, a privileged point that we need time to discover, an isolated speaker in the center and laid on a pedestal, emits the voice of a woman. Her dotted words mention invisible links, links between a part and a whole, a part of oneself as a hand removed. Every sentence converse with a sequence of noises diffused in the first room.

In an intermediate space, step of the way from the noises to the voice, a screen set on the wall shows the written and synchronous translation. Italian translation by Carlo Fossati.