EXP/VOX: A Night of Vocal Experimentation

April 19, 2024

Tritriangle, Chicago, IL

Curated by Anna Johnson

Featuring performances by Anna Johnson, alone-a, maoϴ, Maya Nguyen, and Paige Naylor

Review of EXP/VOX by Livy Snyder for Sixty Inches From Center:

excerpts; original running time 20 minutes

Live sound performance, live-feed cameras, three channel video projection, fabric over a geodesic dome.

∆ alone-a, a solo vocal project of Minneapolis-based artist Alana Horton, explores the limits of memory and moment through vast tapestries of voice, digital delays, and densely rich signal processing. Every audible sound that is generated comes only from my voice, transformed through an ever-evolving Max/MSP instrument to surprising, chaotic, and ecstatic ends.

∆ maoϴ Working with spoken, prerecorded and generated language, maoϴ investigates the abstraction of touch as an arbiter of meaning through the use of languages he may not speak. maoϴ performances involve the use of language processed using a self-built palate controller: an oral retainer-based device which allows control data to be produced based on the touch of the tongue against the roof of the mouth, notably during speech production.

∆ Maya Nguyen is a Vietnamese-Russian interdisciplinary artist who gathers speech fragments, urban recordings, body movements, migratory routes, sounds imitating nature sounds, and videos of daily encounters into open-ended works. Her practice excavates the power relations in human interaction and the environments that facilitate them, focusing on the domestic sphere, colonial subjects, migratory routes, and the relating between the human and the natural world.

∆ Paige Naylor is an experimental vocalist and multimedia artist whose work aims to bend time, transform space, and create new social and emotional realities for/with others through repetitive sonic textures, storytelling, and electronic extensions of the voice and body. Her latest solo album was released in February, The Unearthing, through Chicago label Monastral.

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