We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Luminaire (2013) - excerpt from immersive vocal performance

by Ellen Southern

/
  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      £1.50 GBP  or more

     

about

An excerpt from the 2013 voice and performance piece and drawing series, Luminaire, a process-based performance inspired by the reverse engineering in 2006 of the earliest known vocal recording, Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville’s phonautogram of the folk lullaby Au Clare De La Lune (1860).

This excerpt is a form of duet - it is from the call and response section between live and pre-recorded voices - of the song Au Clare De La Lune, sung in reverse. The oerformance video of this was then in turn reversed, to make a reverse-reverse engineered, and very uncanny sounding, new version of the song. It is a homage to the curious quality and haunting presence of the recorded voice.

See video:
vimeo.com/78108791

ww.ellensouthern.co.uk

credits

released May 26, 2015

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Ellen Southern Bristol, UK

Selected Releases / Live Recordings / Collaborations / Archived works.

"A strength that can only come from the unseen and the unheard, giving life to bone rattling ritualistic transmissions" - Rough Trade Bristol

FB: @ellensouthernvoice/

Twitter: @ellen_southern

Works Archive: www.ellensouthern.co.uk

Site Singing work in progress and field recordings:
sitesinging.bandcamp.com
... more

contact / help

Contact Ellen Southern

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this track or account

If you like Ellen Southern, you may also like: