Mouthful of Voice
“A choir practice for humans and non-humans”
Date+Time:
29/5/2024 (Wed)
19:30-21:30
The Tabernacle
W11 2AY
The choir practice led by Bint Mbareh and Barney Pau is designed for non-musicians interested in exploring their voices in an improvised group setting, in a coming-together of voices that draws inspiration from the sounds of protest.
All current sounds are echoes of past sounds. Sounds are made absent by alienation, atomisation, carceral states, ecosystem degradation, and obsolescence. Though all sounds are ephemeral—an aspect that compels us to listen intently, knowing they will soon fade—they also leave traces through resonance and echo. By becoming aware of this echoing, can we also become aware of our agency over what and how we echo? Can we recognize that we are mediums, like air or water, for other absented bodies through sounded language and other sounds?
In this iteration of the choir, Bint Mbareh’s sonic practice merges with Barney Pau’s olfactory practice, moving beyond the choir’s anthropocentric conception, where humans envelope themselves in their own — distinctly human — sounds. The sounds of fermentation will make a rare appearance in choir, inviting our bodies to be porous to the information available to us through the living cultures. This interaction encourages us to respond sonically, confronting and activating the shame around pleasure and disgust, and expressing the sounds of both in tandem with the ferment(s).
“A choir practice for humans and non-humans”
Date+Time:
29/5/2024 (Wed)
19:30-21:30
The Tabernacle
W11 2AY
The choir practice led by Bint Mbareh and Barney Pau is designed for non-musicians interested in exploring their voices in an improvised group setting, in a coming-together of voices that draws inspiration from the sounds of protest.
All current sounds are echoes of past sounds. Sounds are made absent by alienation, atomisation, carceral states, ecosystem degradation, and obsolescence. Though all sounds are ephemeral—an aspect that compels us to listen intently, knowing they will soon fade—they also leave traces through resonance and echo. By becoming aware of this echoing, can we also become aware of our agency over what and how we echo? Can we recognize that we are mediums, like air or water, for other absented bodies through sounded language and other sounds?
In this iteration of the choir, Bint Mbareh’s sonic practice merges with Barney Pau’s olfactory practice, moving beyond the choir’s anthropocentric conception, where humans envelope themselves in their own — distinctly human — sounds. The sounds of fermentation will make a rare appearance in choir, inviting our bodies to be porous to the information available to us through the living cultures. This interaction encourages us to respond sonically, confronting and activating the shame around pleasure and disgust, and expressing the sounds of both in tandem with the ferment(s).
Exhibition Posters: Bodies of Knowledge
Date+Time:
19 - 23 June 2024
Royal College of Art
Room 103, Studio Building
SW11 4AY
