Ora: Multisensory Conflict

Abstract:

For Sound Studies: Art, Experience, Politics we would like to propose a performative presentation based on an improvisational format prompted by the broadcasts but re-adapted so far in public performances at the 2nd European Sound Studies Association Conference (ESSA) in Copenhagen (2014) and at the Music, Noise and Silence conference at the Royal College of Music/Science Museum (2015). Crossing the boundary between lecture and performance we will at once practise and scrutinise a number of research materials: we will improvise sounds, texts and voices that do not explain or interpret but embody rhythms, repetitions, coincidences and discordancies to present aesthetic, poetic and political conflicts. In this improvised format, the performance creates a sound work that faces its own meta-discourse and is able to talk back, infusing stable frameworks of theory and criticism with the vagaries of an invisible sound.

This presentation enacts an improvisation of materials: texts, sounds, voices and things, that are brought to the event by both presenters without each other’s knowledge. This conflict of material, the surprise, the unexpected are themselves parameters and strategies of the performance: we are thus unable to furnish you with a list of key text or sounds.

To facilitate this performance lecture, we would like to ask permission to slightly alter the suggested time frame and to present for 30 minutes. This is not to exclude an audience but to give enough time for the responsive and improvised dynamic of the presentation to unfold successfully.

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