This week’s show takes its inspiration from the Dostoevsky short story, “Belye nochi,” and more particularly, from Luchino Visconti’s radiant film adaptation, Le notti bianche (1957)—the White Nights. Although Dostoevsky was referring to the famous (perhaps anguished) summer nights in St. Petersburg when the sun doesn’t set until after midnight, and the sky never reaches complete darkness, Visconti transposes this phenomenon to a snowy winter in Livorno, Italy. What results is a luminous study of the thresholds of and tension between opacity and clarity. From within this suspended relationship, this episode of SUNDAY SILENCE explores the enrichment of sound upon the diminution of the image through selections from Aho Ssan, Mindy Meng Wang, and Remo Fernandes: what new things can be heard upon the silencing of 
our vision? 

CLOACA is Vashon-based DJ / artist, Delphine Tress Morrow. She keeps the faith that music shared is a public service, a liturgy.