The Weirding Module UNEASY w/ Audrey Chen 18.04.2026

There’s a kind of unease that you see in an audience exposed to sound poetry and extended vocal practices for the first time. It’s shocking to hear the voice - usually an organ for articulating sense via words or harmony - used to create noise, non-speech, non-sense. Such practices go far beyond word plays and poetic nonsense which remain at all times near-sense and in dialogue with language.

Instead, by pushing against the limits of the vocal tract, the breath and the body, experimental vocal practices reveal the boundaries and show the shape of the body’s insides - at least the parts which air can enter and escape from.

Such threshold defining practices are often experienced by those who hear them, as symptoms. The performer is intuited as contagious, dangerous or...

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