PROCESS: SOUNDING BODIES

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Video Performance 2020, 5 min. (see full video in Portfolio)

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Rehearsal Roadmap 2020


In a circle, each presents themselves shortly

Tell your expectations about the week process


Presentation of the process: exploration (within and without), co-learning, co-creating

Paola to tell something about the research, relations speech – mother-tongue – instrumental sound


Small exploratorium for speech and sound production

Embodied experience, body as resonator and exploration tool

Performers’ bodies, instruments’ bodies, mechanical bodies, electronics

Gesture as preparation, initiating or closing the sound, gesture impacting on sound quality


Collect written feedback at the end of each session – and/or of the week

What did you notice/learn today? It can be keywords etc.


Jane Rigler’s workshop 2016 (Outi Pulkkinen)

Pauline Oliveros, Sonic Meditations score (1974):


“The term meditation is used simply to mean dwelling with or upon an idea, an object, or lack of object without distraction, or divided attention”.


“Each Sonic Meditation is a special procedure for the following:

- Actually making sound

- Actively imagining sounds

- Listening to present sounds

- Remembering sounds”


Warming up, physical exercises – involving breath, voice


Prosody

Speech, frequency range media:


Males fund. 100 (G+)-120 (B/H+) speech

Females fund. 1 8a higher speech G-B/H vl 4th string

Consonants 500 Hz and up – B/H vl key 3rd line


Machines, electricity in Europe 50 Hz, 50 cycles per sec.

G +35 cents (1/4 of tone 50)