I chose to wrote one blogpost on some of the visiting practitioner lectures and some of the notes I kept from them.
March 9th: Angus Carlyle
-questions sound’s claims to immediacy
-field notes
-‘cortisol listening’ – the reason why field recordings seem to never capture the whole experience of the sound;
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April 13th: Derek Baron
-centrifugal rather than centripedal
-Adamic language/Saussure linguistics
-‘affect of proximity’
-‘Represenation of things not worth representing’
–the trope of the ‘holy fool’
tevya – movie Yiddish
plain chant
April 20th: Audrey Chen
‘There’s so much subtext. More subtext than actual text.’
May 11th: Hannan Jones
-body memory – ‘we all carry certain kind of rhythm and beats’, how do we access that?
-collective togetherness
-the voice is both political and a tool;