An ethnomusicologist by training, Viola Albertine continued her studies in historical harps with Maria Cleary at the “Haute école de musique Genève-Neuchâtel” (Geneva HEM). After having trained in fine arts, cultural geography, dance, piano, for some years she has been exploring the voice on her own. At first, a wordless voice, which lets vibrate what passes through the body, then the voice finds the words and creates poetry. Today Viola Albertine accompanies her singing with a harp or a harmonium, music box and a Tibetan bell. She reinterprets the ancient love songs of the troubadours and trobairitz of the twelfth century, makes sounds flourish, near and far, terrestrial and stellar, with personal texts or beloved poems, including poets Philippe Jaccottet, Roberto Juarroz, Hafez, Rumi, Hilda Doolittle Andrée Chedid, Mariangela Gualtieri. The language becomes multiple, from French to Occitan, from Occitan to her mother tongue, Italian. In the inspiration of the moment, between improvisation and composition, listening to the most intimate, the voice sings in the silence that settles.