Golan Levin [US] and Zach Lieberman [US] featuring Jaap Blonk [Holland] and Joan La Barbara [US]

Venue:
Huddersfield Art Gallery
Saturday 29 November
7:00pm
Places Limited


'Messa di Voce' will visit two venues in the UK [ICA, London and Ultrasound] during November 2003, please visit the Tour Website:

Messa di Voce

In Messa di Voce [to put the voice], the speech, shouts, barks and songs produced by a duet of professional abstract vocalists are radically augmented in real-time by custom interactive visualisation software. The performance will touch on themes of abstract communication, synaesthetic relationships, cartoon language, and writing systems within the context of a sophisticated, playful, and virtuosic audiovisual narrative.

Messa di Voce lies at the intersection of technological and human performance extremes, melding the latest in computer vision and speech recognition technologies with the extended vocal techniques and unpredictable spontaneity of two master composer / improvisers. Utterly wordless, yet profoundly verbal, Messa di Voce is designed to provoke questions about the meaning and effects of speech sounds, speech acts, and the immersive environment of language.

www.ultrasound.ws/messa_di_voce/index.html

Golan Levin
[image/software]
http://www.flong.com

Zachary Lieberman
[image/software]
http://www.thesystemis.com

Jaap Blonk
[composition/voice]
http://www.jaapblonk.com

Joan LaBarbara
[composition/voice]
http://www.joanlabarbara.com

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