VOICE CONTROL

“to the ears of others we are what we speak” (Rodenburg, P. The Right to Speak, 1992)

 

Voiced instructions and scripted language have come to feature regularly in my attempts at structuring situations. My work has always been rooted in a physicality and the lived-body, none more so than the use of the voice.

 

“For what the voices of things bespeak is a kind of direct sound of their natures: materiality, density, interiority, relations within experienced space”

(Ihde, D. Listening and Voice, 2007)

 

Since their use in For Bravado the voice and language have been a constant in my work. The voice has been used to draw awareness back to the speaker (For Bravado), to direct (Say Hi From Me), to encourage certain feelings/emotions (9”) and to relate to others (Think of Someone You Know,
What Are Other People Like When They Are Themselves).