Agustín Genoud: Trans-synthetic Voice Morphologies

20.06.2024 / 19:00 – 22:00
With Agustín Genoud

In this concert performance, current music and sound fellow Agustín Genoud will take his audience on a wild and yet intimate journey along his trans-synthetic vocal techniques. Genoud operates at the intersections of a new media-aesthetic order that hybridizes reality and virtuality, pop and art, the body and technology. He connects humans and machines, and stages this connection as posthuman(istic) audio-visions. Always starting from the body and its all-too-human voice, he uses live electronics to create multiple vocal polyphonies, thus materially expanding the bodily sphere. For him, the voice is a channeler of somatic, psychosocial, and spiritual symptoms, as well as a creator and reformulator of them. He uses different technologies & technical processes to reformulate human and biological capacities, its common sense, myths & traditions.

Agustín Genoud’s works are as multi-layered as our present is hybrid. His singing practice aims to explore how to treat the voice apparatus as a producer of modular sound designs in real time. Focusing on technical aspects of voice and sound as well as on producing noises not assigned to humanoid vocal capacity while developing a hybrid work with technology. Moving between quasi-humanoid, animalistic, and robotic vocal gestures. Morphing between vocal abilities from parametric and synthetic sound production throughout the body. Traveling singing and voicing as a research process on non-human and post-materialistic voices, acoustical ecology, and post-apocalyptic destruction. Transitioning between electronic and organic bodies. Exploring intensity production based on a spectral and materialistic performance practice.

After the concert, Agustín Genoud will share insights in his practice in an artist talk, moderated by Miriam Akkermann.

daadgalerie / free admission