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Richard Crow with Lucia Farinati - A human voice (effluent silent sound version) 2018

from Live at Savvy Contemporary, Berlin 08​.​12​.​2019 by Richard Crow

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Richard Crow with Lucia Farinati – A human voice that was addressing itself for the first time (homage to Antonin Artaud) 2018

In September 2018 Richard Crow and Lucia Farinati visited the site of Antonin Artaud’s grave in Cimetière Saint-Pierre in Marseille. A human voice that was addressing itself for the first time is both a sound séance, and an active homage to Antonin Artaud (1896-1948). In 1947 French Radio commissioned Artaud's To Have Done with the Judgment of God his final and major radiophonic work. Scheduled for the programme The voice of the Poets, the broadcast which was widely announced, was in the end suppressed on the 1st February 1948. In a letter to the journalist René Guilly, Artaud wrote:

One must regard it as a sin, and a crime to forbid a human voice that was addressing itself for the first time … Books, texts are tombstones, René Guilly, tombstones that must be pulled up at last.
(Artaud 7th February 1948).

A human voice that was addressing itself for the first time combines field recordings and a text based de-composition that connects places and people, times and spaces. It is an act of haunthentic listening in which the words of Artaud and the phantasmic voices of others of an (un)known and/or mysterious origin can be heard.

Special thanks to Elena Biserna for her hospitality in Marseille.

First performed with a live soundtrack at WHY DO YOU FLY FROM ME?
LISTENINGS IN THE ECHO CHAMBER

10 YEARS SAVVYBRATIONS & PART II OF LONG NIGHT OF IDEAS

08.12.2019 16:00 – the end
At Kuppelhalle c/o Silent Green, Berlin

Listen here
www.youtube.com/watch?v=H81rc...


WITH Jasmina Al-Qaisi, Llorenç Barber & Montserrat Palacios, Stella Chiweshe, Richard Crow, Eiliyas, Chiara Figone, Monilola Ilupeju, Sofia Jernberg, M3NSA & The Mean Weil, Jasmina Metwaly, Nkisi, Pinar Ogrenci, Pedro Oliveira, Rachel O'Reilly & Que Kenny, and others.


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