Instrumental Trans Communication (ITC) is the name for the technique of contacting the SubConscious, the UnConscious & the SuperConscious, using any electronic means to capture images or to record voices (EVP : Electronic Voice Phenomenon). Listening to the sounds and the music, you go in a trance and start channeling spiritual entities, making "Blackout Poetry" (= automatic writing in reverse: you don't write words, you erase words), finding their voices on an old MP3-player.
A quarantine station, a dumping ground for plague victims, more recently a mental hospital — the tiny island of Poveglia in the Venice Lagoon has served many unpleasant purposes over the years, but today it stands empty, a crumbling collection of abandoned buildings and weeds run riot just two miles from the glittering palaces of the Grand Canal. Legends and rumors about Poveglia are nearly as pervasive as the weeds, and they read like a horror story: that so many people were burned and buried there during the black plague that the soil is 50% human ash; that local fishermen give the island a wide berth for fear of netting the wave-polished bones of ancestors; that the psychiatrist who ran the mental hospital was a butcher and torturer who went mad from guilt and threw himself from the island’s belltower, only to survive the fall and be strangled by a “ghostly mist” that emerged from the ground.
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