Sunday 4 and 11 May 2014,
2pm - 9pm continuously:
"I will call you with birds names"
Sound pieces, home-made bird-calls, scores, video
by Prune Bécheau
Meeting and twittering birds experiment with Prune Bécheau at 6 pm
Prune Bécheau on her presentation "I will call you with birds names":
THE GAME OF TERRITORIAL FRICTIONS:?A set of home-made bird-calls on a game table. Inspired by the lack of definition in the "frictional bird-calls" which, sold commercially, mimic birdsongs that are in fact very different: nightingales, robins, goldfinches. They sound like "birdsongs" of all we call "birds" and that we aren't able, willing or don't need to name. Territorial and boundary-setting frictions.
HUMANOID TWITTERING BIRDS GUIDE:?A set of sound pieces for voice, violin, synthesizer and bird-calls. All of which are transcriptions of birdsongs or transcriptions of transcriptions of birdsongs: onomatopoeic transcriptions, motivic, suggestive, relative or partial transcriptions. Humanoid birdsongs scientifically grouped in a chit chat & branches guide.
Prune Bécheau lives and works in Dordogne (France). In 2010, she wrote an essay about the concept of work and the notion of reception in JS Bach. She has several sound practices, collective noise and improvised lutherie, festive and circumstantial music, diversion of commercial radios, experimental punk and minimalist song, acoustic hard-tek and bows games. She plays baroque violin, organ, rushes, rattle in the fields, the street, the chirches, the supermarkets, the public places. In 2011-2012, she made a rebec and began to make sounding cans and boxes in the rain. In 2013, she built with friends a community equipment and played horn in an area so-called "urban and sensitive". She tries to develop the possibilities for appearance of sound, music and its theory in their relationships with social, ethnographic, political or linguistic processes.