CRY OF THE SOIL
SONIC DANCES TO LIVE THROUGH
CRY OF THE SOIL
SONIC DANCES TO LIVE THROUGH
It is a body- and community-based vibrancy across arbitrary and fenced borders. An artistic research & living archive combining traditional ecosomatics, sonic choreography, folk music and intercultural dialogue; instigated to feel from within the flesh of the world we are part of.
Our flesh is drying out. Our flesh is melting away. Our flesh is exploited and extracted. And we keep on breathing. On our map of thoughts, we combine saliva, moist, sweat, tears, drought, fumes, and weather fluxes.
We turn specifically towards folk music practices as critical tools for rethinking the present. We are interested in their cathartic, rebellious and relation-building functions and potentials. We look for the ways of holding on together. It comes from the longing to reconnect to the place, to lived collectivity, to emotions and senses.
We understand voice and music primarily as an intimate somatic experience. We are interested in the quakes that voice and collective music practices provoke on social and somatic levels:
What is this affective charge between sounding and listening? How does music affect us as sentient social beings and facilitate going through difficult experiences? How does it help us to understand and shape sociality? How does it make us swell out beyond our bodily contours – becoming a boundless community of pulses and flows?
We instigate collective processes of learning ABOUT and WITH folk music cultures. We use tools derived from fieldwork understood as a process of becoming and choreographic practices: we focus on the tangibility of sound, deep listening techniques, explore ways and spaces to raise, release and sustain the voice, work with the affective and kinesthetic potential of music, research historical, geopolitical and ecological contexts, and relate to culture as biology. This allows us to explore folk music practices from the perspective of intertwined somatic and social, personal and systemic experiences.