User talk:Graindelavoix

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graindelavoix (grain of the voice) is an art-collective formed by Björn Schmelzer. Since 1999 he is looking for musicians who want to experiment between performance and creation. the necessity of autoproductive and physical art keeps them together.

Graindelavoix is fascinated by voices that are beyond communication, that have no message anymore but rather are the pure expression of their underground: the gritty, intense and instinctive... Graindelavoix uses early music repertoires to find the undercurrent that illuminates our own times: a timeless spirit that stretches out to embrace an interval, a space.

What preoccupies graindelavoix in early music is the bond between notation and what eludes it: the higher consciousness and savoir-faire that the performer brings to a piece (ornamentation, improvisation, gestures...). to graindelavoix, singers are 'spiritual automata'... Material they work with includes franco-flemish polyphony, the art of lamenting, machicotage & other lost ornamentation styles, mediterranean performance traditions, late scholastic dynamics and kinematics, the affective body, gestics, image culture & psycho-acoustica...