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Vibrational Semantics

Belong to Me

Lisa Busby

€15.00

Lisa’s work takes the form of a visual score, a sound work and a short accompanying essay on the metaphorical act of singing underwater, within the context of the migrant crisis in the UK. It is a beautifully haunting.

With link to online sound work.

Language: English

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Vibrational Semantics

Words are my warders but don’t keep an I on me

Daniela Cascella

Essays €8.00

An experimental essay on voice, narrative, literature and translation. In this text Daniela tunes into the hums of voices heard within books, to the recollected csitation, to singing with stitched lips.

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Vibrational Semantics

All you have to do is die

Mette Edvardsen

An artist text centring around the ghost lamp “like a sentinel an eerie outpost watching over the theatre.”

140x200mm
14 pages
edition of 150

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Vibrational Semantics

Five Devours

Holly Pester

Essays €8.00

‘Five Devours’ is a short essay in five parts about need and food as a part of speech, about speech’s relationship to nourishment and hunger; the currency between eating and speaking, expending and consuming.

12 pages
150 x 200mm
risograph printed 
edition of 150

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Vibrational Semantics

Tips of the sung

Samuel Brzeski

Performance €25.00

Tips of the Sung is a collection of interdisciplinary texts from Samuel Brzeski composed over the five years whilst he was Associate Artist at Lydgalleriet. The collection brings together performance scripts for voice and video with newly composed texts for the page. Centring on the vibrations of the voice, the texts exist somewhere between signification and delirium, at times making more sound than sense. 

The texts are full of bumbling mumbles, meandering hums, homophones, inner voices, affirmations, motivations, subvocalisations, resolutions, errors in speech production, peach seduction, car maintenance manuals, self-help fallacies, roomy echo chambers, overheard language lessons, morning meditations, and other forms of verbal rehearsal at the limits of language.

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Vibrational Semantics

A Tone or Two

Marie Thams

‘A Tone or Two’ comes in the form of a text score and a melodic voice work. Noticing a shift in her voice in recent years, Thams tracks how within the last decades female voices have lowered 23hz in pitch. Tuning into the shift toward more gender equality, vocal pitch is explored in relation to authority, electability, courage and rhythmicity.

With link to online sound work.

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Lingua Press

The Flight of the Sparrow: Lingua 1 Poems and Other Theaters

Lingua Press

A composition for one actor and tape, or two actors. Score. 1970

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Lingua Press

Dante's Joynte: Lingua 1. [Poems and Other Theaters]

Kenneth Gaburo

Kenneth Gaburo (1926-1993) is renowned as a teacher, pioneer of electronics in music, jazz pianist, writer, ecologist, publisher, and proponent of compositional linguistics. Over the course of a dedicated career, his uncompromising work carved out its own patch in the territory of American experimentalism.

Lingua Press, 1976

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Varamo Press

The Soft Layer

Jozef Wouters

Performance €10.00

A performance text by Jozef Wouters, The Soft Layer traces and proposes visions and words that enfold the historic building of Dar Bairam Turki in Tunis like a cloak. How can we imagine possible futures for such a place and the community inhabiting it, beyond nostalgia and the spectres of the past? Several voices muse in three languages (Tunisian, French and English) on renovation and history, destruction and cleansing, the limits of science-fiction and the soothing quality of aloe vera.

Published by Varamo Press in the essay series Gestures
First edition May 2022
48 pages, 11.0 x 16.5 cm, sewn perfect binding
ISBN 978-82-691492-4-1