Third project by SHADO for La Biennale di Venezia: for the 61st International Art Exhibition – In Minor Keys by Koyo Kouoh, our media company brings its experience in creating narrative worlds that become digital and physical experiences.SHADO and Cisco developed an AI-powered generative sound system that turns music, movement, and thoughts written by the audience into words and sounds that change in real time, always in a different way.

Conceived by set designer Paolo Fantin, the installation “Echo/SommersiVo” takes visitors on a gradual descent from surface to depth, from light to darkness. Along the way, sculptural fragments of a piano appear, leading to the full instrument playing SommersiVo, the piece composed and performed by Dardust.Echo Becomes a DocumentaryThe installation moves through artistic sensibility, technical expertise, and the emotions shared by the audience: the documentary goes inside that process, and premiered on September 10, 2026 at the Venice International Film Festival. It will be available to watch soon; in the meantime you can see the data on how people interact with the installation.

The installation is part of Persistent Notes, a project curated by Giovanna Zabotti with Denis Isaia and Cesare Biasini Selvaggi for the Venice Pavilion, inviting visitors to discover Venice through sounds, memories, and invisible traces.It’s open throughout the Biennale Arte, from May 9 to November 22, 2026.