Sonic Somatic - Performances of the Unsound Body

In Sonic Somatic, the sound artist and theorist Christof Migone looks at sound art´s overlap with other disciplines through its particular uses of articulation. Articulation is explored here in all of its guises: its negation as silence, its interruption in stuttering and its somatic ramifications in the human body. Migone looks at French playwright and poet Antonin Artaud´s writings, with their implications of strangled speech and glossolalia; American composer Alvin Lucier´s groundbreaking 1969 recording "I Am Sitting in a Room"; Erik Satie´s looped composition "Vexations"; Marina Abramovic´s confrontational performance "Rhythm 0"; Adrian Piper´s "Untitled Performance for Max´s Kansas City"; Herman Melville´s short story "Bartleby, the Scrivener"; Bob Connolly and Robin Anderson´s documentary film First Contact; and of course the work that most looms over this topic: John Cage´s paradigm-shifting 1952 composition "4´33" ."