I'm beginning to decompress from my London trip. What a lot of strange things I've seen in the last few weeks. One that David Reid showed stands out: Ami Yoshida, whose work is butoh-like in its intensity.
Yoshida doesn't sing, but vocalizes using minimal sounds coming from her lungs through her throat. Very intense. Somehow in the movie David showed, the evoked the sound of an entire forest, through her mouth, with the help of a saxophonist doing extended technique (hitting the keys and breathing through the mouthpiece), and a single piano note disrupted it all. The embedded video isn't it, but it's quite stunning.
Yoshida exemplifies what I call the lingual voice (see David, I got there in the end).
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