{"id":1529,"date":"2019-01-04T13:50:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-04T12:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulinepayen.net\/?p=1529"},"modified":"2021-03-18T14:03:03","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T13:03:03","slug":"from-breath-to-matter-kule-berlin-the-psychedelic-choir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paulinepayen.net\/?p=1529","title":{"rendered":"From Breath to Matter \/ Kule, Berlin : The Psychedelic Choir"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulinepayen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Berlin-Art-Link_From-Breath-To-Matter-Logo_Kirsten-Howard_Kunsthaus-KuLe.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"566\" src=\"http:\/\/www.paulinepayen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Berlin-Art-Link_From-Breath-To-Matter-Logo_Kirsten-Howard_Kunsthaus-KuLe.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1530\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.paulinepayen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Berlin-Art-Link_From-Breath-To-Matter-Logo_Kirsten-Howard_Kunsthaus-KuLe.png 800w, https:\/\/www.paulinepayen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Berlin-Art-Link_From-Breath-To-Matter-Logo_Kirsten-Howard_Kunsthaus-KuLe-300x212.png 300w, https:\/\/www.paulinepayen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Berlin-Art-Link_From-Breath-To-Matter-Logo_Kirsten-Howard_Kunsthaus-KuLe-768x543.png 768w, https:\/\/www.paulinepayen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Berlin-Art-Link_From-Breath-To-Matter-Logo_Kirsten-Howard_Kunsthaus-KuLe-220x156.png 220w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Music band. Seven women. Six vocals + bass. We&nbsp;intonate haunted ambient with witchcraft ritual. Our bass player Leah (NADJA) provides mesmerising sonic foundation with drones and processed sounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>A&nbsp;stunning orchestra of alien sounds, at times difficult to&nbsp;believe they emanated from human bodies.<\/em><br><em>The work ebbed and flowed in intensity, ranging from light breath work, to&nbsp;soft rain sounds, to&nbsp;the cacophonous screeches of exotic animals and the razor blade noises of inorganic materials.<\/em><br><em>What interests Wollny most is \u201chow such actions, when made by&nbsp;a&nbsp;group of people, change the quality of sound from obvious to&nbsp;indefinable: how timbre becomes a&nbsp;dominating factor.\u201d<\/em><br><em>And, indeed, most sounds were abstracted from their clear referents. Though one might try, the experience becomes less about discerning a&nbsp;recognizable soundscape\u2014a forest, for example\u2014and more about allowing the experience of sound to&nbsp;wash over the body. The audience is prompted to&nbsp;reconsider its relationship to&nbsp;sound, relinquishing the categorical impulse to&nbsp;associate sound with phenomenon, and instead surrendering to&nbsp;the psychosomatic experience of abstract noise.<br><\/em><br>Sarah Messerschmidt \/\/ Berlin ArtLink \/\/ Feb. 01, 2019<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlinartlink.com\/2019\/02\/01\/the-voice-as-an-instrument-of-touch\/?fbclid=IwAR0F3u-XHZ20gs_DJpDekCMAUz14qPGAIcBZaa7jzpvYaGvYrL55HuIYo4k\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.berlinartlink.com\/2019\/02\/01\/the-voice-as-an-instrument-of-touch\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Music band. Seven women. Six vocals + bass. We&nbsp;intonate haunted ambient with witchcraft ritual. Our bass player Leah (NADJA) provides mesmerising sonic foundation with drones and processed sounds. A&nbsp;stunning orchestra of alien sounds, at times difficult to&nbsp;believe they emanated from human bodies.The work ebbed and flowed in intensity, ranging from light breath work, to&nbsp;soft rain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,23,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulinepayen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulinepayen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulinepayen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulinepayen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulinepayen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulinepayen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1531,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulinepayen.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529\/revisions\/1531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulinepayen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulinepayen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulinepayen.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}