October 2024
The more that I researched, the more I realised how deep this puddle is. Nonetheless, I’ll try my best here to articulate what I’ve found in the process.
I have made a blog post plan overview.
blog posts plans(subject to change):
- ymbpp at home – accessing time through memories and body, reconnecting with spaces we’ve forgotten
- postures and facial expressions with vocal-sounding
- dancing voice singing bodies (meredith monk)
- dalcroze eurhythmics
- the psychological gestures (michael chekhov)
- kits beach – sounding places and sonic fiction (hildegard westerkamp) listening reflection 1
- butoh part 1
- butoh part 2 (hijikata)
- butoh with sound
- sensory listening as one – perception, listening reflection 2
vocal and text with guest lecture (imani mason jordan)- archetype and symbols (carl jung, murray schafer)
The aim of this research is to reconnect our listening to our bodies, and through embodiment, we invoke our buried psyche in alignment. Transcending and deepening our understanding of Life and the nature of being. An arduous goal but inevitable nonetheless.
The sound
15th Oct
Location: Hallway with doors closed (Home, Lewisham)
Participants: 2
This exercise picks up where we left off at April “Your most beautiful pitch and place”. My core concept was to listen in relation to that specific place and attempt to collide the past, present and future into that meditative state. This exercise develops the performer’s listening sensitivity while performers access and associate their significant past memories and manifest them as a pathway/trail. This exercise is inspired by Meredith Monk and Dalcroze Eurhythmics’s concepts towards music education by experiencing sound through body motion. Consequently, connecting our senses to become better at expressiveness, coordination, body awareness and, more relevantly, the lived-in movement experience to understand the nature of being through sound/music.
The recording below explored a space that we tend to walk past without attention. The hallway. I believe this exercise is similar to asking yourself, “What are you grateful for today?”. It reconnects yourself with the environment. I wanted to connect with the space again by listening and vocalizing.
If we close the doors, the space is dark. The apartment has one-sided windows, so the light source comes only from behind the doors. On a windy day, you can hear the whirling from the outside through our opened window. A liminal space almost. As an artist, It is our utmost priority to think through materials in relation to us, to invoke meaning. It is our job to rediscover what we have forgotten and bridge it back to us. The contextual listening.
We first found our root pitch by walking around the tiny space, listening and making sounds. After confirming our position, we started humming freely as we listened to each other. We both had our eyes closed.