Permeable bodies and sound fields – choreography and sonic strategies

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As a sound artist working mostly within a site-specific embodied frame – creating audiowalks, installations and field-recording based composition – I have been fascinated by the way in which contemporary choreography has embraced sonic strategies. I am thinking of a specific Nordic constellation of choreographers whose work I have followed and experienced (on-site and in presence): from Nadja Hjorton’s (Radio Dance, 2012) embodied radio-essay; to Stina Nyberg’s (Splendour, 2014; Skvallret, 2020) reconfiguration of the entrainment between beat and motion, and playful uses of the intrinsic authority of the amplified voice; from Alma Söderberg’s (Idioter, 2014 [with Hendrik Willekens]; Deep Etude, 2018) breath-taking polyrhythmic exploration of voice and motion as modulators of spatial intensities; to Ofelia Jarl Ortega’s (Donnie, 2015) sonic manoeuvring through intimate ecologies of entangled bodies.
From the field of sound arts, there is a counter-point to this emancipatory choreographic appropriation of sound’s potential. Sound artists have also been inspired by the spatial-temporal-relational lexicon choreography has established, by its renewed exploration of the agency of the situated body. The growing interest in the audiowalk format combined with site-specific performative engagement, exemplifies how the listeners’ bodies can be presented with a partiture of motion – where to walk, how to stand, where to look, what to notice – and how the option of following or resisting, trusting or second-guessing, immediately introduces power dynamics into play.
Permeable bodies and sound fields is a short (30 min.) sonically augmented exploration of this intersection between choreographic practice and sonic strategies. It is part presentation (1) / part lecture-performance (2) / part off-venue intervention (3). I will talk you through thoughts while playing sounds (1 & 2), and a GPS-tagged audiowalk (3) expansion of my presentation will be accessible on the grounds and surroundings of the Danish National School of Performing Arts – a site-specific intangible sound installation. The participants will be free to experience this last on their own time, using their own bodies, mobile devices and headphones.

Periode	5 jul. 2022 → 8 jul. 2022
Begivenhedstitel	15th NOFOD Conference: Moving, relating, commanding. Choreographies for bodies, identities and ecologies.
Begivenhedstype	Konference
Konferencenummer	15
Placering	København, DanmarkVis på kort
Grad af anerkendelse	International