@@Leeszaal meeting@@

W A R M  U P  Y O U R  V O I C E
https://pad.xpub.nl/p/tender_reading_meeting

People
Invite women and men? only women? ask friends (Clara, Cristina, Alice), random?
Make public the audio streaming at that day

Titles

• • Attune to the streaming
  • Get into the flow

Topics
Topics we want to talk about

• • Inclusion/exclusion of public/private spaces/sphere (kratos, society) (f.e. fear of being present in public till late, fear of talking about politics). What spaces are these? Qhat sounds and what quality they have?
  • Quitness, enforsed silence, interruption in dialogue
  • Public speech (horizontal ways of speaking in public)--the nakedness of voice
  • Modes of adress that sounds bad for the society like the sounds of protest. Hidden dark narratives of society, mourning, annoyance, "thrinos"
  • Words for how this female sound sounds like/judgments from ancient mythologies to todays assumptions (the Monstrosity…). Labels

Reader
Ask the participants to propose extracts from texts

• • Carson, A. (1996) ‘The Gender of Sound’, in Glass, Irony and God. First Edition edition. New York: New Directions, pp. 119–142. pages: 135(two mouths), (ololyga), 128 (Bell)
  • Beard, M. (2017) Women & Power: A Manifesto. 1 edition. New York: Liveright.
  • 667: Wartime Radio (2019) This American Life. Available at: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/667/transcript (Accessed: 5 February 2019). http://mixlr.com/radiofreshsyria/ (from: "This was bold, because almost no women in the village worked outside the home. They took care of (...) Nusra considered their voices shameful, a form of nakedness" to: "... Assad or the extremists, they barely held any ground.") pdf pages: 20-23
  • Barad, K. (2018) ‘Troubling time/s and ecologies of nothingness: re-turning, re-membering, and facing the incalculable’, new formations: a journal of culture/theory/politics, 92(1), pp. 56–86. keywords: cry, mourning, yell, silence. pages: 64, 67, 74-76, 83,...
  • Realising Sara Ahmed’s ‘feminist snap’: Voices, embodiment, affectivity | ephemera (no date). Available at: http://www.ephemerajournal.org/contribution/realising-sara-ahmed%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%98feminist-snap%E2%80%99-voices-embodiment-affectivity (Accessed: 16 February 2019).
  •   https://schloss-post.com/re-transcribing-composition-two-transcriptionsode-to-schoenberg/
  • https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/may/29/nine-lessons-suffragettes-feminists (Find your voice, and use it)
  • http://jaumeferrete.net/pdf/therearenonesodeaf_ferrete_groundsforpossiblemusic.pdf pages: 20 (She also says ||...)
  • http://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/13887/6/Women%20as%20animal%2C%20women%20as%20alien%20relaiming%20womens%20demonic%20voices.pdf

Workshop/meeeting structure

1. First warm up-feeling comfortable with each other (ideas: face washing, voice/breathing exercises, human microphone, deep listening of Pauline Oliveros, binaural transcription)
2. Reading extracts and sharing personal/collective memories/stories related to them
3. At the same time a streaming platform will broadcast online our conversations and we are going to listen to it in the same space. Because of the feedback loop (microphone and speaker feeding each other) the broadcast will be a flow of echoes of our voices (Cristina we can try that before together). We are going to listen to our past mixed with our present. This gonna help to feel comfortable with our voice being in public.
4. Our patterns will be revealed. Pay attention to them
5. two different places?

idea for reading texts: https://archive.ica.art/whats-on/friday-salon-speeches-becoming

Equipment
Microphone, Processor, Usb Audio Interface, Laptop, Speakers

#WARM - UP PART#
These exercises are about listening, focusing and understanding the strength and quality of our voice in a shared common platform. 



0. Warm up

• Face washing (Pauline Oliveros): a mediator with headphones repeats what Olivero says in youtube/vimeo and everyone else follows the instructions while watching the silent video and the mediator. 
• Contact
• Clara plati-plati vibration
• Breathing kati
• Voice exercises: awakening the sounds of the body. Breathing in from the belly and breath out with vocals sounds.

1. Listening

• Listening recordings/streaming
• complete silence
• whispering personal things

2. Producing voice

• Slow walking, slow reading, what memories awakens
• Human microphone: everybody in the room/public space repeat together in one voice what the speaker says. Producing sounds connected with breathing.
• Collective chanting
• unfiltered questions-- unfiltred statements (END)

• Change poistions in the circle in between exercises
• transcribing
• gestures and words to make a sentense

• Empowering circle.
• Organise yourself
• Telephone broken

Inspiration:
    https://schloss-post.com/re-transcribing-composition-two-transcriptionsode-to-schoenberg/?fbclid=IwAR0xIAWmhvm6hMp8DtCblk96Wj2iQzgVXh4EXc_ON6jq9HQwwYPWyMC8jrY
    
    http://jaumeferrete.net/  (working with texts and voices)
    
    https://soundcloud.com/uclurbanlab/nina-power-soft-coercion (on female voice in public)


Calendar:
18.2 Cinerama  Leeszaal
    until then:
    choose extracts
    contact Leeszaal
    contact Tender
    streaming test
    
    that day:
    warming up selection and try out


7.3 Leeszaal (Thursday)
Warming up selection
Text for why these exercises
Print extracts--to have a pile of texts
Streaming--recording
Drive texts

Sentenses prwto proswpo