Inanis (2020) – from the Latin word for ‘void’ or ‘stupid’ – is a spatial sound piece inspired by the auditive experience of unhearing and its mediation through technologies. Drawing on Donnarumma’s severe hearing loss, the composition invites the listener to experience the void of the unheard. What is unheard is not absent; it stubbornly exists in a sensorial dimension that cannot be accessed – at least not by everyone. But then, this is true also for out-of-body, hallucinatory and mystic experiences. It’s not a question of whether a phenomenon exists, but of how to access it. Inanis is co...