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Voice-Break, a 5-session Workshop with H. Sinno
Admission
- $200.00
Location
Summary
Fridays, November 7- Dec 5
7-9pm ET
Virtual
At a podium, reciting a poem, something percolates in the throat. Is that voice? The night ends, and the reader is tagged in an IG story. The imagined singularity they were taught to cultivate in their MFA pours into the microphone—self-fashioned idiosyncrasies laid bare for the world to see. A betrayal of what is commonly called “voice”? Is the sound the writer conjures in their mind’s ear the same as the sound of their words read aloud? That TikTok automaton—is that a voice? The cat on your FYP you swear is saying “uh oh”—is that a voice? Etel’s torturous mantra—“stop”—repeated until the word suffocates the page—is that a voice? The melancholic sigh before blowing out a birthday candle that can’t unkill the dead—is that a voice? A running out of breath? A quiver? Some spit?
This five-session workshop will explore voice as a sonic field dense with generative contradictions—an inherently collective medium that the self tends to appropriate, identify with, and speak through. Each session will be divided into two parts: a discussion of cross-disciplinary texts examining the material voice, followed by a workshop of participants’ written responses to various prompts.
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7-9pm ET
Virtual
At a podium, reciting a poem, something percolates in the throat. Is that voice? The night ends, and the reader is tagged in an IG story. The imagined singularity they were taught to cultivate in their MFA pours into the microphone—self-fashioned idiosyncrasies laid bare for the world to see. A betrayal of what is commonly called “voice”? Is the sound the writer conjures in their mind’s ear the same as the sound of their words read aloud? That TikTok automaton—is that a voice? The cat on your FYP you swear is saying “uh oh”—is that a voice? Etel’s torturous mantra—“stop”—repeated until the word suffocates the page—is that a voice? The melancholic sigh before blowing out a birthday candle that can’t unkill the dead—is that a voice? A running out of breath? A quiver? Some spit?
This five-session workshop will explore voice as a sonic field dense with generative contradictions—an inherently collective medium that the self tends to appropriate, identify with, and speak through. Each session will be divided into two parts: a discussion of cross-disciplinary texts examining the material voice, followed by a workshop of participants’ written responses to various prompts.