Utterings
Utterings is a sound-only networked performance experiment where six artists while blindfolded, commit to a 30 min long exchange across distance. They engage in utterings as communication, building on solo’s, duo’s, chorales and silence, creating an on the fly “new” language, that forwards attention, trust and affects above rationality. Six sound streams are interlaced and entangled in one single polyphonic composition. The protocol for this performance has been written collectively in the week before the performance. Utterings is a collaborative attempt to go beyond the borders and closures created by languages, opening up and transgressing these in a performance that probes meaning through pre-language communication and formerly un-inhabited expressions.
Utterings is a project by Annie Abrahams (FR) and Daniel Pinheiro (PT) with Constança Carvalho Homem (PT), Curt Cloninger (US), Nerina Cocchi (BE) and Derek Piotr (US) as invited artists and collaborators. Technical assistance by Jan de Weille.
After this first performance Utterings became a group with a website Utterings.
22/2 2020 16h30 Paris time, Audioblast #8, APO-33.
Protocol: No rehearsals, only a sound test and a mental preparation / an attunement. Just before connecting, we will all listen individually to Pauline Oliveros for 15 minutes. https://youtu.be/U__lpPDTUS4 * 16h Paris time connection via zoom. Sound testing. Disconnection 16h15. (16h21 Annie starts zoom again and Jan starts BUTT connection.) * 16h25 Re-connection to zoom by all. Putting on blindfolds. * 16h30 Start. In Nantes and on the radio Julien will introduce us, but we won't hear it. * 30 min of Utterings. Anyone of us six can start - if we have in-between silences, another random person initiates the follow-up. When zoom stops we will know it ended.We disconnect. We will reconnect 5 min later again to say goodbye. we are not making music - it may be boring and that is ok - don't have ideas about what would be "good"
References: Pauline Oliveros, Mikhail Bakhtin, Andrei Bely, Maree Cunnington, Michel De Certeau, Andrea Olsen, Meredith Monk, Maurizio Lazzarato and the bible. Mikhail Bakhtin has a posse!
