The Sound of Language
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The Sound of Language (updated version 2023) In coproduction with Habibi Kiosk of Münchner Kammerspiele, Munich, permanent collection Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice, thanks to Galleria Michela Rizzo, Venice What you are going to hear is completely meaningless. You will undergo the experience of listening to some poems which are semantically unrecognisable because of the altered order of consonants, though the rime, the metrical scansion, the accent and the intonation are mantained: the result is something absolutly incomprehensible but absurdly familiar. With this work I wish as far as is possible to restore the melody and musicality to be found in every language. In order to do so I have to cleanse words of the “distraction” of meaning and let their rhythmic or melodic aspects, now no longer suffocated by their meaning, come to light.I try to go back through hearing to something primary and forgotten: the pure and ancient sound of words, the raw experience of our first contact with the world.Voices:Vincenzo Arsillo (Italian), Assetou Billa Nonkane (Bissa, Burkina Faso), Mathieu Carrière (German), Nicolas Damouni (Arabic), Luisandra De Luizinha (Portuguese), Manuel Ferreira (Spanish) , Bakhyt Kenjeev (Russian) , Alina Kostiukova (Ukrainian), Jelena Kuljić (Serbian), Patrick Lynch (English), Ceren Oran (Turkish), Celine Valadez (French), Xu Xuan (Chinese), Hiroko Yasuda (Japanese)