Theatre Sound as Collaboration (Conference Documentation). Part 2.1: Francesco Bentivegna, Alex Nowitz and Cathy van Eck

Show notes

The full programme of the conference can be found here: https://theatermus.hypotheses.org/theatre-sound-as-collaboration-distributed-creations-shared-agencies

Links to the speakers: Francesco Bentivegna: https://www.bristol.ac.uk/people/person/Francesco-Bentivegna-57fb932c-c1cd-4e2a-ba9d-5fa8ad77ccae/ Alex Nowitz: https://nowitz.de Cathy van Eck: https://www.cathyvaneck.net

Links as references for their talks:

Francesco Benitvegna: For Paola Nunez Torres del Prado, check their website (https://khipucamayoc.github.io/timeofman.html) and this article on AIELSON (https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/jivs_00052_1)

For Begum Erciyas, you can find more info about Pillow Talk at this page - https://www.begumerciyas.com/work/pillow-talk-2019/

• For my project Are You Done?, see forthcoming Artist Page 'Habits from Hyperconnected Solitude’ (Bentivegna, 2024), Performance Research, On Habit, 28, 3.

For Francesco's other project, You Are Not Done Yet, see https://www.theboxplymouth.com/past-projects/state-of-emergency-micro-commissions/francesco-bentivegna

If you are interested in exploring the wonderful work of Holly Herndon, feel free to consult her website at https://www.hollyherndon.com/

To listen to Trans and Non-Binary artificial voices, refer back to Q (https://designmuseum.org/exhibitions/beazley-designs-of-the-year/meet-q-the-worlds-first-genderless-voice) and Syb (https://www.feministinternet.com/syb)

Teresa Pelinski’s practice is available on her website, here https://teresapelinski.com/

For a longer conversation on Hauntology and music, see Bluemink, M., 2021a. Anti-Hauntology: Mark Fisher, SOPHIE, and the Music of the Future. Available at: https://bluelabyrinths.com/2021/02/02/anti-hauntology-mark-fisher- sophie-and-the-music-of-the-future/

For an excellent resource on AI and culture, see this interview to Alex Fefegha, https://www.theknowledge.io/alexfefegha/

Alex Nowitz List of essays, articles, expositions: https://nowitz.de/essays-articles-and-expositions

Video and audio examples of artistic works: https://vimeo.com/alexnowitz and https://soundcloud.com/alexnowitz

Three examples in particular: a) At the intersection of voice, body, and technology—multidisciplinarity, intermediality: Untitled, for voice and live electronics, the strophonion (2016): https://vimeo.com/187541243 b) Following the score or the composer’s vision: Die Bestmannoper [The opera on the best man], for 14 solo singers, choir, orchestra, piano, harmonium, toy piano and theremin: https://vimeo.com/98128085 c) The potential of improvisation—a (real) form of collaboration Susanne Martin & A.N.: Dr. D. meets Dr. V. https://vimeo.com/239994378 Artistic direction: DESIGNING VOICES: International festival for vocal performance art, sound & music, Potsdam & Paretz (near Berlin), 26—28 October 2023: https://designing-voices.nowitz.de/en/

Article: — ‘The Manifesto for the Multivocal Voice: Principles for a performance voice in the vocal arts’ (2018) in Alex Nowitz: Monsters I Love: On Multivocal Arts, Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH), 0 (2019) https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/492687/559938/1704/592 1 Further reading suggestions: — ‘Assemblages of Multivocal and Schizophonic Practices: Unleashing the machined voice’ in Machinic Assemblages of Desire. Deleuze and Artistic Research 3, eds. Paulo de Assis and Paolo Giudici, Orpheus Institute Series (Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2021), pp. 129-141, download article here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/spqhbfyeentetu3/AlexNowitz_AssemblagesOfMultivocalAndSchizophoni cPractices.pdf?dl=0. — ‘Designing and Playing the Strophonion: Extending vocal art performance using a custom digital musical instrument (2016)’ in eContact! 18.3—Sonic DIY: Repurposing the Creative Self, Montréal: Communauté électroacoustique canadienne / Canadian Electroacoustic Community (December 2016), http://econtact.ca/18_3/nowitz_strophonion.html.