warming up @Leeszaal
singing vowels @Leeszaal
describing/annotating
discussing about voice in public @Fine Arts
transcribing vowels @Leeszaal
singing vowels @Fine Arts
singing vowels (high) @Fine Arts
discussing about voice in public @Leeszaal
warming up @Fine Arts
transcribing vowels @Fine Arts
reading extracts @Fine Arts

selection of recordings while wandering around Leeszaal

Lidia

00:00:16,540 Someone with a bag
00:00:28,520 Ok. Music
00:00:33,160 Nice music
00:00:50,860 What is that? Oh, the car, the market. I think
00:02:16,680 Children?

Eugenie

00:00:01,800 Children outside
00:00:10,760 I think it's outside
00:00:13,700 Shoes, walking people
00:00:20,440 Or maybe papers
00:00:27,480 Music inside
00:00:31,380 Chilling up
00:00:53,060 This is outside. It's a troll, it's a bag
00:01:30,900 People in a room. Inside. They are moving, close
00:01:54,620 It's inside somewhere, somewhere...
00:02:15,400 Children in a swimming pool

Alex

00:00:11,740 Em... I hear... It sounds like walking and it's quite windy outside
00:00:18,620 But it sounds like... It's... The microphone is inside or something
00:00:26,980 It's probably music
00:00:30,320 From a car maybe or from some radio?
00:00:37,600 It's outside on the street. I hear some cars in the background
00:00:48,700 Mmmm... It sounds like gardening sounds
00:00:54,820 There are people in the background or maybe it's bikes
00:01:05,840 Oh I hear a bird in the background
00:01:12,120 A very monotone sound
00:01:16,740 It's like driving, maybe driving in a car
00:01:35,120 And some wind around It seems like outside but there is some noise in the background
00:01:36,580 It seems like outside but there is some noise in the background
00:01:46,340 It's outside
00:02:04,920 Oh, I hear children in the background crying
00:02:04,940 There is some weird sound in the foreground, which I... It's hard to describe [chuckling] Oh, I hear children in the background crying
00:02:08,360 There is some weird sound in the foreground, which I... It's hard to describe [chuckling]
00:02:14,900 Again it sounds like there is a kindergarten or school nearby


Tommi

00:00:12,980 This is some water ** maybe from a fountain
00:01:01,480 Plates
00:01:04,440 A bus at stand by at a bus stop
00:01:10,020 Some people are chatting
00:01:16,940 Some kids talking talking while they are playing in the sand or something
00:01:27,940 Two people having a conversation on a street
00:01:36,280 One of them is walking away [chuckling]
00:01:42,100 And now a car is passing
00:01:50,600 It's a construction site
00:01:53,300 Something is being hammered
00:02:01,200 Some sports match or something
00:02:04,160 Everyone is **
00:02:12,540 Someone is speaking Arabic
00:02:18,760 To a group of people
00:02:22,760 It's like a very large voluminous space [chuckling] cause it's echoing a lot
00:02:36,760 Some people are shouting at something at a distance
00:02:43,760 It sounds like in a courtyard
00:02:46,540 A baby crying

Alex

00:00:07,820 There is teenagers nearby and it's walking
00:00:11,700 Oh, there is water
00:00:15,240 That's running
00:00:20,660 Outside probably
00:00:28,880 Oh, that's... It sounds like there is something clapping or like hitting against a surface
00:00:38,520 And it's very repetitive sound
00:00:46,600 Oh, I can hear some, some radio or some music or broadcast
00:01:00,200 That was too short. I don't know [chuckling]
00:01:04,440 Oh, it's quite loud. It's... Maybe it's in some kind of transport
00:01:16,220 Oh, there is a child speaking
00:01:25,740 There are people talking outside... In a foreign language
00:01:36,280 It's not Dutch and there is some wind
00:01:42,320 There are more people talking
00:01:52,760 Oh, there is sounds like there are construction works
00:01:56,720 Or hammering
00:02:00,920 Oh, it's very loud. Oh [chuckling], it's applause or... a crowd of people. I don't know [chuckling]
00:02:12,060 It's inside. It sounds like a hallway... I don't know. Like inside
00:02:18,260 Because I hear some echoing
00:02:22,560 Ot it's inside a tunnel, where people are passing by
00:02:38,200 It sounds like near some street outside and I hear some kids in the background
00:02:46,600 Again, there is a child screaming or crying
discussing about voice in public @Fine Arts
warming up @Leeszaal
warming up @Leeszaal
singing vowels @Leeszaal
describing/annotating
discussing about voice in public @Fine Arts
transcribing vowels @Leeszaal
singing vowels @Fine Arts
singing vowels (high) @Fine Arts
discussing about voice in public @Leeszaal
warming up @Fine Arts
transcribing vowels @Fine Arts
reading extracts @Fine Arts

About

this is how female/high-pitched voices have been described since acient times as Anne Carson observes

Podcasts

Let' s Talk About Unspeakable Things

Thesis

Amplification of female voices

How can we engage politically with the exclusion of specific voices from the public sphere? Here I document my attempts to create a safe common space of trying methods and discussing that topic in Leeszaal, an open library that I consider a diverse public space. I am borrowing methods from feminist groups and protest movements and vocal warming up exercises by Pauline Oliveros. For example, protesters would amplify the speaker's voice by repeating collectively their speech to make their presence visible. Feminists would create safe spaces where women could speak about domestic violence and make a dialogue based on listening. Some methods are vocal performances in situ, the "human microphone", speech acts, listening practices, making podcasts, mediating speech, transform our voices, situated experiments. I am doing that together with Christina Karagianni, who is also from Greece and with whom I share similar experiences of silencing. We combine our practices -her practice lies on choreography and dance and mine on social interaction, voice and sound- and try vocal exercises and reading in moments of Leeszaal.
We invite
how we should approch the gender terminology and false association with voice when inviting people? Should it be about femme sounding? Female voice?
people from Leeszaal and our environment, who find themselves related and interested to this topic. Elements from the meetings: discuss previous material, reading extracts in random order,
discuss
what conflicts or frictions the technical aspect provokes? web-audio, recordings
personal associations and experiences with voice in public, warm up, say a sentence of personal experience in any language, transcribe only the vowels, read back the vowels, read outloud all together the score of vowels, repeat sentences with distorted voice, make podcasts.

Diary of West Rotterdam

I recorded sounds from West Rotterdam, while walking around a neighborhood for several days. This action was part of my first experiments when I was in attempt to understand how gender binaries regarding voice are reflected in space, especially public space.

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  • Angela Davis @Occupy Wall Street
  • Judith Butler @Occupy Wall Street
  • Laurie Anderson - Mach 20
  • Ballout, D. (2019) ‘Good Morning, Kafranbel’, This American Life: Wartime Radio
  • Vocal performance of Katalin Ladik in the film ‘Berberian Sound Studio’, 2012