Jean-Charles Adami will share his deep knowledge of Corsican polyphonic singing. His work is grounded in oral transmission, collective listening, and the raw presence of the voice as a living, communal act. Through his guidance, participants will encounter polyphony as a space of encounter, resonance, and shared breath.

The “Pieve di A Serra” it’s a region in the centre-eastern side of Corsica that includes over 20 villages with a very low population density, and it spreads from 1700 mt. height till the sea. Its actual Confraternity – of the Holy Cross – was formally born in 1992 and it’s both a Christian and secular attempt to promote mutual help in a rural environment under a serious depopulation threat. Their vast singing repertoire is mainly displayed with a three voices polyphony and a very characteristic way of delivering it; the secular side of it include mainly paghjellas (traditional lay Corsican form of singing), while the religious repertoire can accompany various liturgical ceremonies, like the mass of the dead or the Holy Week.

A fragment of their Office of Darkness (sung during the Holy Thursday) found its placement in Teatr ZAR’s performance “Caesarean Section – Essays on suicide”.