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Burning Down the House: The Voice at the edge of language (2025)

Anat Spiegel
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This paper documents a series of collaborative experiments in language, drawn from my practice as both a vocalist and a composer. These experiments explore the thresholds of meaning as it is constructed and dismantled through the vocal mechanism. In this paper I ask: How can the disintegration of language in vocal performance serve as a bridge between conscious and subconscious states, and what compositional and performative strategies can be developed to engage with this process? This research engages techniques such as Cutups, Text Butchering, and hyper-speed delivery, alongside meditation and poetry, to investigates how meaning can be stretched, fragmented, and reassembled in vocal performance. These methods challenge conventional notions of linguistic clarity, shifting the focus toward the embodied and sonic dimensions of speech. This work serves as an offering for vocalists and composers, poets and seekers, captivated, like me, by words and their ability to make or break realities. Each chapter is paired with a Tarot card, inviting the magical and intuitive to intermingle with the analytical. The Tarot serves not as an illustrative device but as a provocation—disrupting linear logic and making space for associative, unpredictable resonances. In doing so, this research proposes an expanded approach to vocal performance, one in which linguistic instability becomes a generative force rather than a limitation.
typeresearch exposition
keywordswords, Language, language-based, collaboration, composer as performer, composition, consciousness, subconscious mind, Meditation, poetry, Tarot
date26/02/2025
published14/07/2025
last modified14/07/2025
statuslimited publication
copyrightAnat Spiegel
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/3445681/3445682
published inKC Research Portal
portal issue3. Internal publication


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