SOLO PERFORMANCES
Although I love to collaborate with others, I sometimes do solo performances mostly related to voice sounds and poetry. Below are some examples of the various performance forms and concepts that I have developed throughout the years. For booking, please contact me.
Video still from a muted performance during the lockdown period due to the epidemic.
SOUND POETRY COMPOSITIONS AND IMPROVISATIONS
My practice of sound poetry combines musical composition and words or grammelot (imitation of languages). The focus is on the phonetic aspects with all kinds of voice sounds but sometimes a semantic text also pops up as an intermezzo. I work with my own compositions of sounds and texts as well as improvisations of both.
BILLY, WHERE IS YOUR LAUNDRY?
Video footage from solo sound poetry performance at K77 in Berlin. Video by Grgur Savic, edited by Asta D.
SOUND POETRY OF ARTWORKS OR GRAPHIC SCORES
Does visual art have sounds? Well, to me it has! If I tune in, I can hear the colors, shapes and forms of certain art pieces. I resonate with works of art with my voice. Sometimes some interpreting words sneak in as well. This kind of performance is suitable for vernissage or finissage of exhibitions. Interpretation of graphic scores composed by others is also part of my repertoire.
From a vernissage at Studio Baustelle, Berlin. Photo by Linea.
AVANTGARDE ABSTRACT POETRY AND CUT UP POETRY
Some of my texts and poems are composed using abstract or cut up techniques. Like my performance DAS WORT HAT EINE INNERE FARBE originally composed and first performed during the “Lange Nacht der museen 2023” at the Bauhaus-Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung in Berlin.
DAS WORT HAT EINE INNERE FARBE: Short avantgarde abstract performance
A sound poem with abstract word combinations and performed with different voices and tones related to the primary colours. The title is inspired by DAS WORT IST EIN INNERER KLANG from the sound poem by Vasilij Kandinsky (1912).
My poem is divided in three parts which are related to the primary colours and to my synesthesia ability that makes me see words and letters in colours. First part BLAU is written on a blue circle, second part GELB on a triangle and third part ROT on a square. These were the geometric forms that Kandinsky saw for the primary colours. Kandinsky was a teacher at the Bauhaus school in the earlier years.
SOUND POETRY THEATRE AND FLUXUS PERFORMANCES
Sound poetry theatre is an art form that I have developed partly from my theatre background and training and partly from my specialization in voice performances. I create characters using portrayed figures in visual art and give them voices and gestures. Like for instance giving voice and action to the Capriccios of Goya. This form of performance is usually composed as a work and often related to a specific context.
Occasionally I do more action - fluxus inspired performances for instance where my voice are recorded giving me more space to physical actions.
IMPROVISING GOYA
Have you ever heard Goya’s work? I voice-sound some of Goya’s Capriccios and play their characters in an interaction performance with the audience. There are different versions of this performance. For instance: Papers with photo copies of Goya’s art work are turned upside down are spread across the stage and the audience choose which paper I should "do". Some of the papers contains some surprises! Performed first time in Berlin 2023 at Backsteinboot.
Below are photos from a sound poetry theatre performance using pictures of various art work. Performed at the Garage Neukölln. Photo by Simon Snorkel.
DIE MONOTONIE DER WÄSCHEREI
A short solo fluxus performance performed first time for the Manifestival 2022 at ACUD THEATER, Berlin.
You can listen to the soundtrack I composed entirely with my voice below.
