2023
Urvoice
Urvoice is a solo performance for voice, body, and multi-channel sound system. It is a polyphonic amalgam of glossolalias, onomatopoeias, pulsed voices, bodily noises, and stratified physical vocalities. In Urvoice, these elements coalesce into a wandering song that is both private and shared: a magmatic mother-sound continually evolving and devolving, bypassing the constraints of language.
The vocals blend hypnotically and asymmetrically, giving life to an archetypal sound—a chant that seems simultaneously more-than-human and less-than-human. The living body’s experience becomes sound poetry, transforming the song into a concert, and the concert into a circular somatic experience shared between performer and audience.
Voice, body, composition: Francesco Venturi
Sound direction: Jacopo Cenni
Physical dramaturgy: Camilla Crispino
Production: Visconti Studio (London), Malagola Research Center (Ravenna), Mirmica Association (Milan)
Acknowledgements: Valentina Kastlunger, Vittoria de Franchis, Luigi Ceccarelli, Leah Kardos, Ermanna Montanari, Enrico Pitozzi, Katherine Meizel, Flora Vannini, Raffaele Rezzonico
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