Tone Again

17/12/23 6pm CET
Hélas Nerina couldn't assist, so we were four to experiment tone again.
We used Berio Sequenza III as attunement:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGovCafPQAE
After a 30 min session we discussed how to continue. Decided to do regular sessions based on a 'musical' concept as for instance harmonie, tone, rhythm or drone.

Download of the .mp3 of Tone Again or listen via soundcloud.

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Quick Ai recap of our session:
The meeting focused on troubleshooting audio issues and discussing potential settings for future meetings. The team decided to stick with the original sound setting and record the session for future reference. The meeting was characterized by disjointed and unclear communication, with no clear decisions, alignments, next steps, action items, or open questions provided.

The complete 4366 char report as .pdf. Hilarious.

a series of unclear statements, interjections,
and exclamations
we are rebels escaping capture ... are we?

Individual sound recordings - silences edited out: 4 different durations, 4 different patterns, 4 different styles, 4 different microphones, 1 processing algorithm.
Soundfiles available for research via a private message to one of the members.

10/03/24 9pm CET
Droning
Atunement 5 min of SUNN O))) - Pyroclasts (Full Album)
https://youtu.be/TNWvBZWgrAs

Three 10 min tries - difficult to organise breathing, to stay with same tone and with zoom, that glitched / crashed ... left us isolated / frustrated in the second test...
next time we will try a different platform: jitsi - less sophistication / formatting / capitalising might suit us more.

Mp3 of third droning test. Zoom can't handle our sounds and is treating Constança's voice badly,

Image of second droning test. Zoom can't handle our sounds at all, crashes, cuts , alters...

Nerina wrote:

Absence as Utterer = presence elsewhere
Spending hours listening to my daughter's breath in her sleep, learning it by heart so as to decrypt it and know when to put her down without waking her up is a form of deep listening. Not uttering but practicing what makes uttering possible. So, I don't feel far away from my fellow utterers, even though I seemingly let them down at each session.
Meanwhile, Myrte is starting her own uttering, syllables that match tones and rhythms, smiles and giggles to pneumatic utterings of our own. It's a different time, and yet fully immersed in it, it demands and facilitates the kind of presence our band also requires.

12 / 05 21h droning again with attention to rhytm (breath, modular, relational). We will try the common.garden platform,

Atunement https://youtu.be/H3oaOKRNwxE
PHILL NIBLOCK / Nothin To Look At Just A Record

testing 22/04