DIE WALD LISTE

and the presence can be an ephemeral Die Wald Liste seems to be a natural continuation of the search for the elusiveness of the forest through the form of the spoken word that becomes sound. I have always found lists interesting, and when I read about the 1000 combined words with Wald, I immediately imagined a performance with this long list, which could also become infinite because we ourselves could create, with the compound nouns form of German language, additional words for the list that we cannot find in the Grimm Dictionary.

Die Wald Liste is a narrated song for the trees, for the moss, for all the animals, for the air, and for all the sounds that belong to the forest and that we should preserve. The long list of the forest is as if it were a roll call, a call to itself, naming every possible detail of the forest, naming and asking for presence in the sound, the sound reverberatespresence, given by the spoken word for an instant and escaping each time as the ungraspable otherness. Die Wald Liste gives the possibility of having a name, of becoming a word in the space and escaping the rigorous list of the page of the dictionary, in its precision it is untranslatable, it needs more words, and for those who do not understand it remains only sound and for those who do understand in the repetition of the root of Wald it becomes a mantra and in the variation of the compound word it makes one remain alert. Through this list of words, the listener practices the discipline of listening, opening his imagination to unexpected paths and listening to himself.


Die Wald Liste è un’invocazione per il bosco, una performance sonora ispirata ai 1000 termini presenti sotto la parola Wald (bosco) nel Dizionario tedesco dei Fratelli Grimm.
Die Wald Liste è una canzone parlata e allo stesso tempo un dialogo d’amore. Come dice il biologo, filosofo e scrittore naturalista Andreas Weber, ecologia e amore sono strettamente connessi. E solo grazie a questa profonda interconnessione possiamo relazionarci con essa, comprenderla e salvarla.
La Wald Liste è recitata come una preghiera laica: un’invocazione, attraverso il ritmo della ripetizione della parola chi ascolta entra in un’altra dimensione che lo porta a immaginare il suo percorso nei sentieri di una foresta, talvolta perdendosi e poi ritrovando la strada grazie a piccoli dettagli.