Watertongue is a site-specific performance that explores the profound relationship between the voice and the environment, resonating with the "ecological memory" of a mutable landscape. Through mimetic singing, water sounds, ritual gestures and narration, the voice harmonises with the surrounding environment, moving between the presence and absence of water, evoking the sounds of animals such as birds, frogs, insects and other migratory wild voices. The performance unfolds a perceptual space where breath, noises, fragmented melodies, invented languages, real and imagined water sounds intertwine, as the body becomes an acoustic threshold where human and more-than-human voices meet.

Supported by Initiative Neue Musik, LABgamerz - pratiques interdisciplinaires et multimédia - and the Goethe Institute Marseille

Watertongue has also been realized as a sound work for voice, field recordings, lyre harp, and electronics (19'34'', 2025-2026). Composed and performed by Alessandra Eramo, it premiered on 22 January 2026 in the radio program Walk So Silently That the Bottoms of Your Feet Become Ears on Fango Radio (IT), curated by Vittoria Assembri and Gaia Ginevra Giorgi.




Photographic/Video Documentation by Johanna Elsen