Experimental Sound Studio is happy to host Lynn Book as she performs (with Michael Zerang) and holds a workshop entitled Writing Through (the) Voice.
Lynn Book Performs
Friday, May 30th 8PM
Audible at ESS [Experimental Sound Studio]
5925 N. Ravenswood, Chicago, IL 60660, 773-769-1069
http://www.exsost.org
Lynn will perform vocal and textual interventions in response to Kristin M. Frieman’s Thread Tracings exhibition at Audible at ESS.
Thread Tracings is a series of over 100 embroidered drawings created from a dressmaker’s raw materials: needle, thread, and muslin. The compositions are created in sequence; threads pulled from the structure of the cloth hold a memory of linear form. Lynn will ‘read’ the drawing compositions as a vocal score and also perform a text-based work built upon another series of Kristin’s referred to as “cares”.
A concert of improvisations and remapped compositions will follow in duet with renowned percussionist, drummer, composer and arts advocate, Michael Zerang.
Chicago Tribune Metromix had this to say in 2003: “[Book] blended stream-of-consciousness word jazz, novel utterances created by lips, lungs and diaphragm, and snatches of exquisite jazz and operatic singing into a unique aural confection… a beguiling thrill ride of a concept piece.”
See: Kristin M. Frieman
Thread Tracings: A Dressmaker’s Still Life
May 2 – June 15, 2008
http://www.exsost.org/public-presentation/audible/
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Writing Through (the) Voice - May 31, 1 - 4 pm
http://www.exsost.org/workshops/
This workshop with vocalist and intermedia artist Lynn Book is for performers, writers, poets, vocalists, and anyone interested in exploring dynamic relationships between text and voice. It will focus on the relationship of ‘voiced bodies’ to language production. The burden of ‘making sense’ in writing and speaking – especially through shopworn narrative structures and imperatives for efficient communication – often delimits imagination. When ‘voiced bodies’ are engaged, there is a new indeterminacy at play challenging the stability of rules and roles of words, meaning and being. We will explore short-circuiting, shock as well as surplus methods through vocal and writing improvisations aimed at plumbing distances between impulse, feeling, image and utterance. Writing becomes physical, voicing becomes textual, and the immediate and unpredictable circulation makes possible new assemblages of desire in the making.
