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​HEROINES OF SOUND

Lisa Streich
Oxana Omelchuck
Marisol JimEneZ
Iris ter Schiphorst

        Of course the machines speak
to each other
        We only translate
whir to birdsong
                 Then build
machines to translate birdsong
to speech
        I spoke into my machine
It made a crumpled sound
               like music
made me cry
        What hinges on almost
Play a flute
(the flute is a flute)
Play with a flute
(the flute is an actor)
        Almost an actor, almost
speaking
        But should I talk
        about the axle
of the resonating
               body
        Seven men, eight
including the conductor
               and a single
woman
        my heroine
        and I the villain
for singling her out
              It leaves me cold
to hear it meant to leave you
cold but I didn’t
hear it meant to leave you
cold
A person in the mask of a person
I believe
             Each arm is a character
        One arm crumples cellophane
        The other arm laughs
             The other arm feels allowed to laugh
        provoking a second-order laughter:
        the laughter of relief
        at being allowed to laugh
As if there were a menagerie
just offstage
              the actor’s voice
replaced with a different animal call
every time he opens his
        Script for ensemble
Sit in a circle
holding a pressure gauge
controlling a puff of air
that keeps a balloon afloat
              Prevent the balloon
         from touching the ground
              Prevent the balloon
         from floating away
              Score for mouth
Before an act
         believing is a talent
Of course I believe this
              That’s how believing works
Play a flute
(the flute is a flute)
Play with a flute
(the flute is an accomplice)
           In the space between
           the sound and the ritual
           there was a plot
Sampled and resampled
And all that white noise
The machine talking back


Annelyse for DRAFF

Heroines of Sound is an electronic music festival featuring the work of female artists including performance, video and discussion. It ran from the 7th - 9th July at Radialsystem, Berlin. 

Image: Marco Microbi

Posted:14 July 2017

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