Whistle Jam | Dante Rendle Traynor

Whistle Jam excerpt 1, ‘Oi G’ (0’40”)

Whistle Jam excerpt 2, Choral Chanting (1’38”)

Whistle Jam excerpt 3, ‘Audience participation’ (0’34”)

Whistle Jam excerpt 4, ‘Look over the edge’ (2’15”)

Whistle Jam excerpt 5, ‘Wayne joins in’ (2’16”)

Whistle Jam excerpt 6, ‘Choral Chanting’ (4’27”)

The work consisted of Dante and collaborator, Guthrie, positioned at the top and bottom of the stairwell at Woburn, each with an amplifier and microphone. The two artists attempted to have first a musical then simply a normal conversation across the space, the massive amount of reverb confounding any attempts of coherence!

This piece was made as a performance/installation for The Voice and Nothing More, Slade Research Centre, January 2010.
Dante is currently studying Undergraduate Fine Art at the Slade, look out for more from him soon.

Historical Speech | Junko Otake

Martin Luther King 28.08.1963 (Extract)

Adolf Hitler 1934 (Extract)

Hirohito (Emperor Showa) 15.08.1945 (Extract)

Mahatma Gandhi 17.10.1931 (Extract)

Diana Frances Spencer 09.08.1993

Mixed Media / Sound Installation
2009

Her Voice | Patricia Delgado

Her Voice

‘Her Voice’ is an aural response to the print entitled: Sheet of Nineteen Heads in Small Circles (c. 1530-40) and was inspired by Julia Kristeva’s writings on the semiotic and the female voice. The sound-piece is a vocal progression that starts with word and symbolic language, moves into non-verbal sounds and the semiotic, and finally culminates in song.

While making this piece, I was concerned with the articulation of the female I-voice over the he/him of the male subject and the frustration at the constant return to the latter. Is the female ‘I’ only possible to formulate as the ‘I’ of difference, the ‘I’ of the other? I took refuge in song, but again encountered the problematic ambiguity of the singing voice: fetishised object for pleasure or the consuming self-enjoyment of feminine jouissance? Despite its theoretical struggles, I hope that ‘Her Voice’ retains an emotive impact and a refreshing intimacy.

This piece was made through collaboration with UCL Art Collections.
Patricia is a final year undergraduate at the Slade, look out for her degree show in May 2010.

The Voice and Nothing More | Sam Belinfante and Neil Luck

The Voice and Nothing More, January 2009, was a week-long festival exploring the voice as both medium and subject matter in contemporary arts practices. Both established and emerging artists worked with leading vocal performers and composers in an exploration of the voice outside language.

Invited performers included Mikhail Karikis, Lore Lixembourg and Juice, as well as a specially formed large-scale vocal ensemble.
Performers, working with the artists and resident composer Claudia Molitor created new score-objects that culminated in a series of new performances. Artists included Martin Creed, Cornelia Parker, Estelle Thompson and Bruce Mclean.

Video: Kathryn Faulkner and Robin Sewell
Editing: Sam Belinfante

Curated by Sam Belinfante and Neil Luck.

For more information, images and press please go to the Voice and Nothing More website.