Hummmm

I now have a little collection of recordings of experiments that I've done with groups- choir, in workshops, and from my regular sessions with Simon and Maddie. I have been struggling to upload them to this blog which makes it difficult to write about them, because I want them to support what I am saying. 

I've been thinking about the experience of vibration, the intimacy that comes from shared aural space, the sharing of breath and the closeness that it brings, without the need for knowing each other, or even necessarily sharing eye contact.

So I had been thinking about the idea of amplifying the vibrations that happen in the circular humming exercises and making it more of a physical sensation. one way of doing that could be to build a plywood stage and put speakers underneath it, and invite people to lie on the stage floor...but there are a number of problems with that idea. If it was a raised area, it's quite likely that people would feel too conspicuous to lie down in a public space in front of everyone. It's also a limited space and would discourage people from joining the humming, which I would like to be possible too. I want to make something experiential for people, not just a sculpture that people will look at. I like the idea of work that is open to the possibility of play. I also thought about the idea of bricks that have some kind of inbuilt soundsystem- each containing a note. People can press buttons/shake the bricks/ect to produce a note in a human voice, building any combination to make a song of some kind.

This would fit really well with the continuous performance of the humming.