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1-2: Listen to Performance, Listen to Voices
  • ISSN: 2057-0341
  • E-ISSN: 2057-035X

Abstract

This Voicing takes the form of six duets: a dance between the typed word and the dictated one, between text for the page and text for the stage, between vocal closeness and distance, between speaking and listening. It is offered as a poetic reflection on the shift of the voice from embodied live performance to the novel form informed by, the author, Paris’s research, which interrogates the visceral and the virtual, liveness, embodiment and intimacy and how spatiality and shifting proximities contract and expand levels of connectivity and closeness between audience and performer/audience. It references two performances by, the author Paris, (1999), a work for an audience of one that takes place over a mobile phone, and (2012), a live and recorded audio performance that takes place at the edge of the ocean and is performed by singers and swimmers.

Funding
This study was supported by the:
  • Agence Nationale de la Recherche under the ‘Investissements d’avenir’ (Award ANR-15-IDEX-02)
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Keyword(s): audio performance; embodied; intimacy; proximity; sound as caress; touch
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