ALVEOLI is a research-based artistic project investigating the collective voice as a relational and participatory practice, developed across Italy, France and Colombia.

The project explores collective singing as a space of resonance and co-presence, where listening becomes an active process of relation, knowledge and shared creation.

Collective vocal practice, CONfusion ODEON, 2018 

Starting from the question “what happens when people sing together?”, ALVEOLI approaches the voice as a dynamic field in which individual and collective dimensions continuously redefine one another.

The project emerges from the awareness that collective vocal practices can express experiences that exceed verbal language, while activating forms of social connection and shared presence.

Collective vocal practice, Lontano Da Dove, 2018

The research develops an artistic methodology combining:

– participatory vocal practices
– soundscape observation
– collective creation processes

Within this framework, listening practices are understood not as passive reception, but as active modes of relation and knowledge production.

Audio and video recording function both as analytical tools and as compositional material, translating relational processes into artistic form.

A central phase of the project takes place in Colombia, particularly in Cali and Villa Gorgona, in dialogue with Afro-descendant vocal traditions of the Pacific region, where collective singing maintains an active role in the construction of community life.

The research unfolds through periods of fieldwork interwoven with phases of reflection and re-elaboration, combining in-person and remote processes.

The outcomes of the project take the form of:

– a modular audiovisual installation
– a short film intended for international circulation

The project aims to contribute to the discourse on sound studies and listening practices, while developing a transferable artistic methodology applicable across intercultural contexts.

The project is currently in development.