Tactile Acoustics
Lecture Performance
45 min
2019 / 22

Circling around a vague love story unfolding in a nightclub, Tactile Acoustics is an attempt to outline an acoustics of touch at the intersection of bodies, space and sound. Based on the physiologies of human listening and the voice, it traces a speculative continuum of vibration and movement from the atomic to the global scale, intersecting at the massive sounding energies on the dancefloor. Through speech as well as performative, participative and musical means, combining scientific with fictional narratives, it reflects on the idea of sound as corporeal excess. Therein it focuses on the voice, the primary human instrument of sonic production, as a dynamic bodily excrescence. As a force, that bends a vast array of materials across organic and synthetic domains to mimic form and movement of a speaking body, more specifically of its vocal apparatus.