Projectie van Transmission een video van een Utterings performance voor het We’re All Bats Listening Arts Channel 4/12/2020, gevolgd door een workshop.
In de workshop werken we toe naar een 10 minuten durende Utterings ervaring waarbij we, bij uitzondering, geen gebruik maken van het internet en machines. Ik ben heel benieuwd of, en hoe dat anders zal zijn.
Utterings is een online performance- en onderzoeksgroep, een online “band” bestaande uit Annie Abrahams (NL), Daniel Pinheiro (PT), Constança Carvalho Homem (PT), Curt Cloninger (US) en Nerina Cocchi (BE). Wij zijn vijf kunstenaars met zeer verschillende achtergronden, die elkaar online ontmoeten om zich, geblindoekt, voortbouwend op solo’s, duo’s, koralen en stilte, te verdiepen in “utterings” als communicatiemiddel. Deze communicatie wordt niet gedreven door efficiëntie, niet geregeerd door code of abstracte conventies; maar ontwikkeld zich via affect, aandacht, haperingen, vertragingen en zelfs leegtes. We gebruiken klanktaal om een actieve, verweven communicatieve structuur te creëren waarin zowel mensen als machines betrokken zijn in een proces van gedeelde auditieve uitwisseling en aandacht. Bemiddeld door machines, kabels en compressiealgoritmen, is onze geluidsperformance verankerd in het lichaam.
You are welcome to join every first Monday of the month at 18h CET in a meeting between people who don’t use words to connect. A kind of conversation without words.
The sessions will start with a short introduction by one of the Utterings members. The “rules” for each session will be set by all who participate. There will be no audience only participants.
A link to the practice venue will be available one hour before from the practice page.
This is not about music or performance but about connecting beyond language.
24/10 15h Paris time, Distant Movements, 90 min. workshop + performance. Registration closed, but you can join us here for our performance, 17h Paris time, 6pm Athens time.
Utterings Panel: Toward a Supra-Semiotic Telepresent Communication. May 26th 2021 14h30 Paris time. Members of our group will collectively discuss what we have pragmatically learned and experienced in our performance research thus far. During the panel we make a writing pad available, where the audience can collectively read and write their thoughts on utterings as a communication form. Utterings will join and continue the discussion on the writing pad in the last part of the panel.
panel starts at 5 min.
Utterings is a networked performance and research group whose members gather online and, while blindfolded, engage in utterings as communication. We want to create an on the fly “new” language, that forwards attention, trust and feelings, above rationality. Put another way, we seek to develop a shared, experiential, supra-semiotic form of communication based on our ongoing performance history with each other. Michael Bakhtin’s concept of the “utterance event” as a node of intersection between lived, present-tense communication and atemporal, semiotic meaning has informed our research. Over the past year, we have enacted eight performances online “at” festivals “in” Nantes (France), Birmingham (UK), Linz (Austria), and London (UK).
04/04 2021 Weaving Triggers 11/04 2021 ! {Tricks & Habits} 18/04 2021 Patatuning 5.00 – 6.30 pm UTC, workshop. Limited to 6 participants. or join us for the performance 6.30 – 7.00 pm UTC. Free access to all.
Questions? Don’t hesitate to contact me. More info.
Participants are invited to join, during 90 minutes, the members of the group in order to explore together dynamics of listening and improvising through voiced sound(s) as a means to weave a web of interrelated expressions in a communication system. The workshops will be guided and each one culminating in a 30minute public performance
Utterings is a networked performance and research group. Engaging in utterings as communication, they build on solo’s, duo’s, chorals and silence while blindfolded and connected at a distance, attempting to go beyond borders and closures created by language.
UTTERINGS is a networked performance and research group composed of Annie Abrahams (FR), Daniel Pinheiro (PT), Constança Carvalho Homem (PT), Curt Cloninger (US), Nerina Cocchi (BE) and Derek Piotr (US).
July 15, 20h Paris time. Utterings, second in line for the opening concert of Network Music Festival. “Sound without borders.” Online 15-18th July 2020. We will be live here: http://live.networkmusicfestival.org/
Exploring innovative digital music, art and research which investigates the impact of networking technology on musical creation and performance practice, Network Music Festival presents cutting edge musical performances, workshops and discussions.
Features a diverse array of music including browser-based performance platforms, video-conferencing collaboration, live coding, live scores, laptop ensembles, networked physical devices, AI bots, VR environments, mobile apps and much, much more. The performers span the globe and are based in more than 24 countries. Programme.
NMF looks to support artists and audiences alike. All the concerts will be free to view, but donations on a Pay What You Can principle are accepted. All donations will go directly to artists.
Utterings is a networked performance and research group composed of Annie Abrahams (FR), Daniel Pinheiro (PT), Constança Carvalho Homem (PT), Curt Cloninger (US), Nerina Cocchi (BE) and Derek Piotr (US).
31/03 at 18h30 Paris time (CET, GMT+1) Find your time here. Online. Duration 40 min.
If you are interested in attending as a listener please send a private email to one of the members and you will be invited.
Utterings is a collaborative attempt to go beyond the borders and closures created by languages, opening up and transgressing these in a performance that probes meaning through pre-language communication and formerly un-inhabited expressions. In Utterings communication is not approached as a transmission of information, ruled by code or abstract conventions, but as connection through affection, attention, glitches and even voids.
Members of Utterings are Annie Abrahams (FR), Daniel Pinheiro (PT), Constança Carvalho Homem (PT), Curt Cloninger (US), Nerina Cocchi (BE) and Derek Piotr (US).
On the 22nd of February 16h30 Paris time during the festival Audioblast #8, Utterings sera diffusé en direct en ligne et sur un système de spatialisation radiophonique installé à la Plateforme Intermédia, 4 Boulevard Léon Bureau, 44200 Nantes. Organisation APO-33. Online listen here: Concerts en ligne. 22-23/02 2020.
Utterings is a project by Annie Abrahams (FR) and Daniel Pinheiro (PRT) with Constança Carvalho Homem (PRT), Curt Cloninger (US), Nerina Cocchi (BE) and Derek Piotr (US) as invited artists and collaborators. Technical assistance: Jan de Weille. Since this event Utterings is a band.
Utterings is a sound-only networked performance experiment where six artists commit to a 30 min long exchange across distance. The artists gather online and, while blindfolded, they engage in utterings as communication, building on solo’s, duo’s, chorals and silence, creating an on the fly “new” language, that forwards attention, trust and affects above rationality. Six sound streams (no instruments used) are interlaced and entangled in one single polyphonic composition shared live in the audioblast program. The protocol for this performance will be written collectively in the week before the performance.
As an individual it is very difficult to address the problems related to all kind of global emissions. Of course you can act privately, but we need more. Utterings is a collaborative attempt to go beyond the borders and closures created by languages, opening up and transgressing these in a performance that probes meaning through pre-language communication and formerly un-inhabited expressions. Communication not as transmission of information, ruled by a code or abstract conventions, but connected with affection and attention will counter data imperialism and rationalist exploitation.
how to go beyond glossolalie? what will be the intention? is attunement enough? if we manage to avoid meaning we may discover something Martine Neddam: Glossolalia is ‘dancing with words’. Dance first, before moving beyond dancing. Igor Stromajer: An extremely intriguing concept. Who knows, perhaps you don’t even have to go beyond glossolalia. If glossolalia is done “right”, it already goes beyond … itself.
Mikhail Bakhtin has a posse!
Audioblast is a festival de création sonore utilisant le réseau comme lieu de diffusion, il se compose de nombreuses pratiques audio en réseau, de musique expérimentale, drone, noise, field recordings, poésie sonore, électroniques et musiques contemporaines.
Curt Cloninger is an artist, writer, and Associate Professor of New Media at the University of North Carolina Asheville (US). His art has been featured in the New York Times and at museums, galleries, and festivals from Korea to Brazil. His fifth book, “Some Ways of Making Nothing: Apophatic Apparatuses in Contemporary Art,” is forthcoming from Punctum Books as part of Erin Manning and Brian Massumi’s 3Ecologies Immediations series. His writing and art may be accessed at lab404.com, playdamage.org, and deepyoung.org.
Nerina Cocchi is an Italian theatre artist and translator based in Brussels, Belgium. A 2019 recipient of Bourse Claude Etienne, a fellowship for emerging Belgian playwrights, she took part in the Arctic Circle Residency and sailed in the Arctic region in 2019. Co-artistic director of inoutput, an international group of artistic creation, she also works as assistant producer for Belgian dance company Dame de Pic/Cie Karine Ponties and is the author of “THE WArDROBE”, an operatic film to be released in 2020-21.
Derek Piotr (b. 1991) is a Poland-born producer and composer based in New England, whose work focuses primarily on the human voice. His work covers genres as diverse as glitch, leftfield pop, chamber, dance, and drone; and is primarily concerned with tenderness, fragility, beauty and brutality. derekpiotr.com
Constança Carvalho Homem studied Modern Languages and Literatures at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Porto. She completed her Masters in Text and Performance Studies with Distinction at King’s College London and RADA. In recent years, she sought the offshoots of a Grotowski-inspired unified stage practice, having trained with Matej Matejka, Thomas Richards/Mario Biagini and Maud Robart. Porto-based, she works as translator, dramaturg, performer and director. Radio plays and improvised music are two major interests. Of her recent collaborations, she’d highlight 2019’s Hysteria
Annie Abrahams, artist and performer based in Montpellier France, investigates the possibilities and limits of communication under networked conditions. She is known worldwide for her netart and collective writing experiments and is an internationally regarded pioneer of networked performance art. bram.org
Daniel Pinheiro, performer and visual artist based in Porto, Portugal has been developing work in the field of Telematic Art mostly as a resource to discuss and reflect upon the impact of technology on everyday life. daniel-pinheiro.tumblr.com
Daniel and Annie work occasionnally together since 2014.
net art, video, performance 
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