COLLECTIVE VOCALITIES FOR A FUTURE SONIC FOREST
27.04.22 @ACC Gallerie Weimar, 17:00-20:00 

Vocal musical technique has been a fundamental vector in the construction of the subject / human image. There is an intrinsic relationship between the evolution of the human as an articulating specimen who re-distributes the symbolic and political elements of the world, and the sound-image of an angelic vocality. The construction of the definition of the vocally angelic is an aesthetic and political process of (in)visibility and enthronement.

In the workshop we will work in the construction of “strange-vocalities” aspiring to address a series of questions like: Where are we vocally inhuman? Why? What for? What is a robotic vocal capacity? What is an animal vocal capacity? If our practice rejects that system of borders and we are therefore able to experience transitions between various kinds of vocalities, to what extent are we discernible as beings? To what extent does participating in a robotic/animalistic vocality is not equal to being a robot/animal?

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What will we do? 

Collective listening & sounding practices to build a collective sonic forest

Becoming BIO-MACHINES

Discrimination between the biological and the mechanical is an exercise, the only purpose of which is to point out the operations that determine the common understanding of these definitions and how they build a voice that we eventually consider our own, as well as a series of vocalities that we call alien. 

During the workshop we will go through acoustic, analog and digitally processed singing and body exercises using our voice, microphones, specifically designed audio processing and the resonances of the space. We will explore at which point vocal resonance and bodies interrelate with machines and different types of vibrations and we’ll practice various listening exercises.

We will consider the sound event as a vibrational process of which we are part, as modulators of the acoustic vibrations that precede us and in which we perform. In this respect, vibrational spaces devour subjects and detach them from their humanoid abilities, turning them into variations of vibrational elements within a resonance system – a cannibalistic space that transforms the singer’s flesh into vibrational energy. If the vocal interpreter, from a sound perspective, understands the role of his body in space as that of a vibrational transformer, they could melt into that role as a modulation of the whole vibrational space.

What should you bring? 

Comfortable clothes

Water to drink

Desire to use your voice

NO REGISTRATION NEEDED