Star Chamber

Star Chamber is a dream within a dream: a mystical musical journey to an island in Venice’s lagoon, steeped in mystery and surrealism. Using the island as its physical stage, this multi-artist work explores sound, space, and perception through a series of site-specific sonic and performative interventions. Emphasising dislocation, attentiveness, and the suspension of conventional audience’s expectations, Star Chamber unfolds as a continuous, time-based experience. The audience is guided through musical epiphanies that celebrate the island’s unique architecture and atmosphere, inviting complete immersion in ephemeral, site-responsive acts. Bendik Giske activates artillery corridors and bridges with continuous saxophone rumbles, transforming breath and space into a single resonant body. Hanne Lippard’s poetry reverberates from afar, her spoken-word compositions drifting like fragmented thoughts, suspended between clarity and echo. Beneath arches, Graindelavoix conjure spectral polyphonies, their raw vocal timbres animating ruins with a sense of temporal collapse. In the island’s open, Mabe Fratti’s cello and voice converse with the elements of the natural arena—melancholic, intimate, and dreamlike. Together, these performances dissolve the boundary between sound and setting, evoking a shared hypnagogic state.