Starting from listening. (attention to layers) [gradients] working w/ breath, tasting, tapping
__A__I__ __O_ _I__E_I__. (A__E__IO_ _O _A_E__) [__A_IE___] _O__I__
_/ __EA__, _A__I__, _A__I__
ST_RT_NG FR_M L_ST_N_NG. (_TT_NT__N T_ L___RS) [GR_D_NTS]
W_RK_NG W/ BR__TH, T_ST_NG, T_PP_NG
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This is an invitation to listen, to travel between, as our inverted mouths are meeting in a kiss,
we gather as one squeaking body reenacting a rehearsal
to encounter native languages, to meet vowels and t-p-s-k.
to desire, adding to what’s already there, surveilling self, consciousness.
to desire, adding to what’s already there, surveilling self, consciousness.
Valley-acoustics, trusting vowels and everything before, between and beyond inverted inner ears.
This begins and ends with listening.
An air mattress full of moist breath in 40+° Matera – a foreign body and it listens.
Score, scoring sound, and body,
hurdle, swarm.
Voicing viscerality inward, forward, back, and forth, forth and back voice
aaaaaeaaaaeaeeaeee
ee e eeeeeeee
eeeeeeeeiieieeeeiiiieieiieiiiii
iiiiiuuuuiuiuiuiuiuu
uuuuuuuooououo
o ououoooo
ooooooo o o
o oo o oo ooo
o o oo o tooo
tune in without knowing,
between gasp and grasp, you will find me,
or other way around,
tracing remembrance,
between distance and stance,
we start from listening.
never for the first time.
but always a first time:
This begins and ends with listening.
An air mattress full of moist breath in 40+° Matera – a foreign body and it listens.
Score, scoring sound, and body,
hurdle, swarm.
Voicing viscerality inward, forward, back, and forth, forth and back voice
aaaaaeaaaaeaeeaeee
ee e eeeeeeee
eeeeeeeeiieieeeeiiiieieiieiiiii
iiiiiuuuuiuiuiuiuiuu
uuuuuuuooououo
o ououoooo
ooooooo o o
o oo o oo ooo
o o oo o tooo
tune in without knowing,
between gasp and grasp, you will find me,
or other way around,
tracing remembrance,
between distance and stance,
we start from listening.
never for the first time.
but always a first time:
Group performance with Dutch Art Institute, Matera IT, La Monacelle, 2026
Never for the first time
Student participants: Ayse Idil Idil, Carlos Azeredo Mesquita, Dory Samuel, Henriks Zegners, Ilja Schamle, Leo Hugendubel, Nika Pećarina, Olfa Arfaoui, Patrick Freriksen, Rikke Lundgaard Ebling, Sophie Dandanell
Tutor participants: Frédérique Bergholtz and Angelo Custodio
