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.
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