The Fondamenta Sant’Eufemia, on the Venetian island of Giudecca, is a street that parallels the water. Its presence, rising out of the waves, feels almost arbitrary. Between storefronts numbered 610A and a chipping 655 is a lane where houses in red and gray give way to the same color scheme in smaller scales: the brick walls of houses and the polished tiles of a former convent. There is a piazza with a gray church, set against a slightly grayer sky. Next to it is the Archivio Luigi Nono. Here, the manuscripts and papers of the Venetian master of sound, silence, and space are kept.
