ECHO
The only sound material used in the Echo installation is the human voice. I thought, that it would be worth trying to recreate the situations from the stories about Narcissus and Echo. In this particular story the nymph named Echo is only able to reflect the voice, what extinguishes all the attempts to initiate the contact and relationship with Narcissus. I asked a few people to try to recreate similar behavior, they were only allowed to repeat the sounds, words and the last words of the sentences. The topics were randomly improvised.
We tried to recreate the situation from the myth. Does the reconstruction succeeded? I don’t know. However, the records illustrating some kind of a game, communication without the dialogue and monologue with Echo were produced.
There is no exchange here, but there is the intense Presence. The tones and energies of the voices are essential, each one different, private, intimate. The records were field recorded, in an acoustic environment highly variable. They were realized in a Czech language. For me, as an initiator of this situation and the listener, it is important, that without understanding the matter of the spoken tasks and words I receive language more acoustically than semantically. I don’t understand what the characters of my recordings “do not talk” about, however I perfectly hear all the Echoes and reflects, tones and melodies.
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Very special thanks to :
Petr Stibral
Jan Laska
Seslo
Pavel Hoke
Seslo
Pavel Hoke
Miloš Vojtěchovský
Veronika Resslová
Martin Blažíček
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