A Chorus of Geo-haptic Tones (2:36:47) 2022

FESCH.TV INFORMIERT:

by Felicia Konrad (Malmö, Sweden)
and
Julieanna Preston (Ōtaki, Aotearoa)
presented at Voices in and out of Place:
Misplaced, Displaced, Replaced and Interlaced Voices
6-7 September 2022 hosted by
Vicarious Vocalities, Newcastle University, UK

A Chorus of Geo-haptic Tones is 2 hours and thirty-seven minutes long.

It is best experienced using headphones.

In this creative work, we wonder…..

What if:

Sound waves travel as energy that is reflected, absorbed or transmitted by the material environment and atmosphere?

What if:

A voice is launch?

It is a sound wave that touches the world.

What happens when the world touches back?

What if:

Two voices, of two women, two friends, in two lands, two continents on opposite sides of the earth, launch voices to one another?

Describing their place, their voices migrate back and forth in an improvisational, vibrating circuitry navigating through thick, loose, dense, light, smooth, turbid, calm, fierce and fickle geography.

Each refrain gains and loses bits of the landscape it has touched as it unfurls and unfolds as unleashed, wild, roaming sounds linked by whispers, weather reports, sighs and poetry.

Always fluid.

What if:

The voice regains its suppressed rawness and its relation to the gut and bodily orifices?

What if:

This was that long moment.