Moaning choir’s open rehearsal: The Never Ending Moaning of a Polyphonic Choir
Raoni Muzho Saleh | Baltic Circle's repertoire
The never ending moaning of a polyphonic choir is a working title which marks the rehearsal of Raoni Muzho Saleh’s workshop for Baltic Circle 2023. The workshop Moaning Choir deals with the question “what happens to our feeling and sensing bodies when we are held in a collective and affective space of moaning?”
<span>During a week the participants have engaged with moaning as a polyphonic practice which shapes emotional expressions through sonority as data. Drawing inspiration from the musical technique of </span><span>“</span><span>call & response” in for example folk songs, gospel and working songs, Raoni uses this technique to rehearse alongside the fellow wailers with a listening through the skin and a calling from the gut.</span><br>
The precondition of the neverending moaning of this polyphonic choir is that we already are a moaning breathing brethren and that when we gather in an endless wailing, our sounding cuts through any futurity of justice that seems unapproachable. As Anthony Heilbut puts it in The Gospel Sound: Good News and Bad Times:
“Words can’t begin to tell you, but maybe moaning will.”
*The whole is part of the Baltic Circle Festival programme.
DATE
24.11. at 21:00
LOCATION
Mad House Helsinki, Lintulahdenkatu 3, Helsinki
DURATION
50 min
LANGUAGE
English