Performance

The six performers of this piece listen, individually and through headphones, the audio track of a soundtrack that is compounded of different films that belong to a broad common imaginary. This soundtrack is sung and activated through the voices of this choir, instantly. The ear and the voice of the performers form a continuum. The six voices amplify the audio track in the same moment in which they are listening to it, creating a sonic journey from atmospheric intensities to soundscapes, going through dialogues accompanied by the sound of objects, reaching cries that appear above tiny frequencies, entering into everyday sonic environments that propose a background, a spatial sound context: auditive references, phonic mutations, phonetic misunderstandings, echoes, unisons, onomatopoeias, cacophony... Thus establishing another experience of the image, something like having a "stereo view" or reading images in "24 fps (frequency per second)."

We see six bodies moving, going through the architecture of the theater. They move and stop, not taking roots but producing moments, changes in their appearance, meetings, encounters and everyday actions.However, this apparent naturalness is challenged from the superposition of the soundtrack sung by the same bodies that perform these actions. They are like "zombies", because these bodies are inhabited by other souls, possessed by other wills. In this case there are six bodies possessed by films, by sounds. Six bodies talking among themselves and with the audience through films.

This overlap results in a mismatch between what we see and what we hear and therefore in a continuous shift of meanings. This choreography of connections and disconnections makes the viewer be constantly generating images and associations. And so the choreography, not only occurs in the bodies of the choir, but in the mind and the eye of the spectator.

“...You know, KLONK... I think that movies are a conspiracy... I mean it... They AHEM AHEM are actually a conspiracy because they set you up... They set you up from the time you’re a little FALTAN FOTOS kKKkid. They set you up to believe in everything... in ideals and strength and BRRRUMMMMM BRUM-BRUM-BRUM-BRUMBRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR, of course, in love...VROOOOOM... love? HEEHEEHEEES HEEEEESSSSSSSS So you belive it.. right? ...you go out, you start looking... BRUMBRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR you keep looking.

You get a job, like us, VROOOOOOOOOOOOOM your apartment and jazz. BRRRRRRRM And... you tuckaTHUCKtuckaTHUCKtucka how to be feminine, you know... You learn how to cook... HUM... (TEE)HEEHEE But there’s no Charles Boyer in my life. I never even met a Charles Boyer. I never met Clark Gable. I never met Humphrey Bogart... I mean, they don’t exist, that’s the truth. But the movies set you up and no matter how bright you are, you believe it. And KLONK ahHAHAHAAAAAAA!”