Introduction to the Exposition 'Monsters I Love: On Multivocal Arts'
1) Vocal Performance Art and Extended Voices: An Introduction to the Field
2) Doing Things with the Mouth
3) Designing and Playing the Strophonion: Extending vocal art performance using a custom digital musical instrument
4) The Manifesto for the Multivocal Voice: Principles for a performance voice in the vocal arts (Abridged Version)
5) 'Intercourse with Ghosts': Haunted Territories revisted
6) Moving Tongues: Playing Space (unabridged video documentation of final solo performance)
Concluding Remarks
Glossary
References
Acknowledgements
1. From Sense to Sound, from Sound to Sense
In between text composition and sound poetry
a) Schaumspuren
[traces of foam]
for speaking voice
On dissolving vowels, decomposing the voiced sphere
b) Mönche am Meer: Eine konsonantische Auflösung
[monks by the sea: a consonantic dissolution]
for speaking voice and video
On dissolving consonants, decomposing the consonantal sphere
2. Mundfundstücke: Das Konsonantenvokabular
[mouth found objects: the consonant vocabulary]
for screen and two loudspeakers
‘Staging the Mouth, Directing the Voice’ and exploring the vocabulary of consonants (oral sphere) as vocal objects
3. Panache
for voice solo
Mediating a highly individualised performance practice in 90 seconds
4. Voicescapes: Studies on the Extended Use of the Voice
Exploring the oral and vocal potential through a collection of works for voice solo
5. Im Element
for voice solo and singing bowl
Documentation of public performance at KUNSTHAUS Potsdam
On Gestures and the dialogical principle in the Solo Performance
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Works for Voice and Strophonion:
or Interfacing the voice with custom, gesture-controlled live electronics
1. Untitled
for voice and strophonion
(accompanied by a quick introduction to the first version of the Strophonion using LiSa)
2. Mundfundstücke: Das Konsonantenvokabular
for voice, strophonion and video
Documentation of a public live performance during the festival of interdisciplinarity Made in Potsdam, for dance, visual arts and music at the fabrik Potsdam Germany.
for voice and strophonion
Documentation of a public live performance during the festival of interdisciplinarity Made in Potsdam, for dance, visual arts and music at the fabrik Potsdam Germany.
4. Studies for Voice and Strophonion: A collection of works for the solo performer
Exploring the extended voice using gesture-controlled live electronics, i.e. the strophonion, based on interactive sensor and computer technology
3) Designing and Playing the Strophonion:
Extending vocal art performance using a custom digital musical instrument
First published in eContact! 18.3 — Sonic DIY: Repurposing the Creative Self (December 2016), Montréal: Communauté électroacoustique canadienne / Canadian Electroacoustic Community, the article can be read online as well,
https://econtact.ca/18_3/nowitz_strophonion.html
[last accessed 26 January 2019].
a performance for vocal performer and dancer in two parts featuring voice, body and strophonion
Documentation of a public live performance in Studio A of the RADIALSYSTEM Berlin.
Mapping the performance terrain out of three practices: the vocal, sound technological and bodily, and premiering the new configuration based on audio software Max.
a performance for vocal performer and dancer featuring voice, body and strophonion
Trailer documentation of a public live performance during the festival Improvisation Xchange at DOCK 11 Berlin.
Practicing dialogue between extended vocal art and dance, exploring interdisciplinary approach to artistic research for dance and voice.
4) The Manifesto for the Multivocal Voice:
Principles for a Performance Voice in the Vocal Arts (Abridged Version)
The article is taken from the publication in Geoff Cox, Azadeh Fatehrad, Anya Lewin, Andrew Prior, Laura Hopes, Hannah Drayson, Allister Gall, ‘Artistic Research Will Eat Itself. Proceedings of the 9th SAR International Conference on Artistic Research‘, Research Catalogue (2018), PDF pp. 380-94, https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/512748/512749/0/0 [last accessed 26 January 2019].
1. Kaspar
a musical scene for piano, cello and cor anglais
interpretated by three instrumentalists from the ENSEMBLE MOSAIK Berlin.
Documentation of a public live performance during the intersonanzen, the 'Brandenburgisches Fest der Neuen Musik' at the fabrik Potsdam.
Composing overstimulation, exploring the musician's voice—Tracking serendipities for Music Theatre.
2. Extending Voices, Sampling the Other
an artistic research sub-project in collaboration with the vocal ensemble AUDITIVVOKAL Dresden
Trailer documentation of rehearsals at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden.
Addressing the question concerning the mediation of idiosyncratic vocal practices and investigating the implications of applying sampling techniques in the context of playing with a vocal ensemble.
a) Panache
for solo voices
b) Was ich tue, ist schlecht getan
[What I'm doing, is poorly done]
for four voices
1. Goldbergtangenten
for piano, voice and electronics
A project by German pianist Michael Wollny together with British electronic musician Leafcutter John. Text is taken from passages of Der Untergeher [The Looser] by Thomas Bernhard.
Documentation of a public performance at the Konzerthaus Dortmund.
Exposing the spaces in-between speech, sound and music or how to dissolve the genre-typical boundaries between literary reading and concert, hörspiel [radio play] and music theatre.
2. Rose/Nowitz
a duet of improvised music for violin, voice and strophonion
Documentation of a public performance by Jon Rose and Alex Nowitz at the 'Now now' festival in Sydney
Exploring sounds of resistance
for voice and strophonion, flutes and contrabass clarinet
Documentation of studio performances on collaboration with Sabine Vogel and Theo Nabicht in the Vivaldisaal Berlin.
Field-testing the practice of sampling the other through musical improvisation.
