Singing for Lead

 

Singing for Lead
A call to sing a spell for Lead: a collaboration with Viennese singers 

Rehearsals: three weekdays in November
Final Event: 25th of November at 7PM
Contact piuska@mac.com for more information

According to Finnish healer-traditions the place of Lead is in the depths of the Earth, where it cannot poison living organisms and wreak havoc on nerve cells. However, Lead has been dug up to the surface by us humans - to serve our industrial and economic - even belligerent - motives. Lead is a preferred metal in bullets, due to its density and stability in heat. In the act of shooting, a shooter inhales lead particles and eventually develops lead poisoning. A visible symptom of lead poisoning is aggression. War breeds war.

On the 25th of November, as final event, during the Vienna Week, the singers will sing at a public site in Vienna of their choosing and in relation to local history of violence and war.

 

Singing for Lead in Central Park, Maunula, Helsinki. In residence with m-cult

 

OPEN CALL 

for professional and amateur singers to join Pia Lindman in creating a song for Lead in Vienna:
Manaus is the Finnish word assigned to the act of speaking or singing a spell that focuses world’s forces. For instance, with a manaus, one can drive something down into the earth or up into the sky. With a manaus, one sets oneself in vibration with the world and becomes a sympathetic part of the forces of the world.

How to sing a manaus, to re-build, to reform, melt the metal? We start with a few examples: wolves, cods, whales, cattle calls, and a deaf dog. These examples have in common the act of vibrating a particular relationship of dimensions of the world, such as ocean water, levels in the atmosphere, and insides of a living body. We train our sympathetic relations, of becoming part of the magnificence of the world, vibrate together our systems of nerves and cells. This is the force of the manaus.

In order to sing for the Lead, we begin with simple exercises that guide you to experience these relationships and vibrate with these forces. We talk through how wolves and whales tune into these vibrations and how human-to-cow sympathy has been established and kept vibrating - throughout centuries. We explore how we can connect ourselves with each others singing bodies. We learn to give energy by singing to another human as well as to beings of other species, plants, and matter. A manaus gives energy: moves, transforms, reforms, melts metals. There are no specific scores to begin with, but these exercises will bring forth the scores and possible words that you need and want to work with. We may or may not use words.

 

Traces of recent volcanic activity on Iceland.