Project
Must Be Talking to an Angel
Artistic research exploring voice, body, and identity through technological intervention.
About the Research
In collaboration with Effi & Amir,Must Be Talking to an Angel explores the performative potential of a set of technological tools that process, modify, or imitate the human voice. These technologies widen the already existing gap between voice, body, and identity, disconnecting these three components from each other.
What can we learn from this new state of affairs about the body-voice-identity relationship? If our voice is not (or not only) our own, if it is largely filtered, but also copied, stolen, if one can speak to disembodied voices, or hear the voices of deceased people, how does all this, in turn, influence the notion of identity, so intimately linked to voice and body?
Is it possible to find, beyond the dangers lurking, a potential for liberation in this disconnection? Can voices without a source, just like angels, tell us things we cannot say?
Related Compositions
By the Throat
Film series by Effi & Amir with original soundtrack by Thomas Myrmel. Includes both Sonic Exposition and Sonic Development.
View Project →About Effi & Amir
Effi & Amir are performance artists and filmmakers whose work investigates the body, voice, and identity. Thomas Myrmel created the original soundtracks for their film series "By the Throat," weaving electronic textures around themes of vocal mechanics and physical expression.
The project has been supported by Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Beursschouwburg, CBA, VAF, the Ostrovsky Family Fund, Argos, and Artport, and produced by La chose à trois jambes.