The starting point for the essayistic listening performance was a research trip to Florence and Milano conducted by Anna Frei and Sally Schonfeldt in November 2015 within the framework of the exhibition «The Ketty La Rocca Research Centre» by Sally Schonfeldt at Istituto Svizzera in Rome.
Their research followed the traces of the conceptual artist and poet Ketty La Rocca, referring to her studies in electronic music at the Luigi Cherubini Conservatory of Music in Florence with Pietro Grossi, in 1965. The claim, La Rocca was one of the first women studying in the first ever electronic music course in Italy was found in several publications and exhibition texts within the art discourse, and was reproduced by journalists and art historians until the present time. 
Based on, and inspired by conversations with (art) historians, musicologists, musicians, label owners and contemporaries of Ketty La Rocca such as Marcella Chelotti Grossi, Albert Mayr, Laura Zattra, Fabio Carboni, Lucilla Saccà, Luisa Santacesaria, Roberto Neri, Maurizio Nannucci and texts by Teresa Rampazzi / Gruppo NPS and Pietro Grossi, Anna Frei and Franziska Koch developed an essayistic listening performance dealing with questions of biographical/historical constructions, fragile memories & oral histories, authorship/collective working processes, italian feminism within the art & avantgarde music world, women* in early electronic music in Italy, fantasies of non-hegemonic sound waves and time travelling echoes of inaudible voices.

the sound as the trace of her* voice – live recording