Song Becomings
Between gesture and voice, something emerges. Not yet meaning, not yet language, existing in a fragile interval—a crack where meaning seeps through. Before words solidify into definitions, before gestures become codified signs, there exists this shimmering potential. In this unfolding, each moment expands into its own universe, terrifying in its nakedness. Traveling toward the center of the now—that impossible point where everything meets nothing.
‘Song Becomings’ is an ongoing series of performances where I’m exploring sounds of the voice in combination with gestures. Every performance emerges from combinations of somatic vocal scores from my current research Tuning - Resonant Bodies as Sites of Transformation. This practice proposes techniques and scores to become a resonant body—a medium through which information can be perceived, amplified, and transformed via the medium of the voice. The research centers around sound as a relational practice, as a tool to embody the impact of energies and organisms that are crossing and emerging from one’s body. At its core lies the understanding of the human body as an ever-changing and interconnected organism. Through the voice these fluid becomings, connections and continuous metamorphoses can become tangible in a visceral listening experience.
In ‘Song Becomings (a composition of moans, howls and cries)’ , I’m descending into the depths of somatic ancestral informations within my body. The female voice in its raw forms both in pleasure, rage or grief, has been censored in western culture over centuries. I’m intending to excavate internally suppressed sounds and compose them into a polyphonic composition. Like mycorrhizal networks beneath forest floors, in the process I’m tracing dark and hidden internal spaces.
Video 'Song Becomings (a compositions of moans, howls and cries)': Spit & Sweat exhibition, 4/5/25, nadine, Brussels
Video 'Song Becomings (until it appears)': 22/2/25, artist commons, Brussels (Video Mar Szydlowska)
Photography Linde Stevens
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