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Chyme
is an audiovisual collaboration between vocal improviser and composer Carol
Genetti and visual artist Gwyneth Zeleny
Anderson. Published in a limited edition, Chyme consists of a CD containing
four tracks composed and performed by Genetti,
paired with four screen-printed “listening scores.”
Chyme is concerned with the visceral experience of losing
a sense of separation between oneself and everything else. It takes its
name from the semifluid “cocktail” of gastric juices and partially digested
food in the stomach. Chyme
carries out the seemingly alchemical process of synthesizing nourishment:
it's a mediator of external and internal, dissolving what we consume and
absorbing it into our blood and organs. Similarly, Chyme aims to digest the boundaries between performer and
audience, human and environment, power and passivity, and sound and body.
Genetti's pieces
act as an evisceration of sound from the body, blurring the edge between
her individuality and the environment around her. Yet instead of
disembodying the voice completely, she reembodies it, as the sound waves
are poured into other bodies –– tubes and piano housing — to mix and create
a different type of extended voice. These sounds are then processed through
electronic postproduction studio techniques, resulting in immersive
shifting layers of sound textures that nonetheless retain the ineradicable
grain of her voice.
Rather than a composition for generating sounds,
Anderson's listening scores provide a visual framework for perceiving Genetti's compositions: screen printed marks and text
prompt the listener to engage with the audio in different sensory and
conceptual ways. Layers of color shift and lose alignment along a
trajectory marked in time code as the intricately folded scores emulate the
folds of the small intestines.
This release, presented together in an
organ-like vinyl pouch, includes a glass-mastered CD containing four pieces
by Genetti, one copy of each of the four
listening scores by Anderson, and an additional informational sheet
providing credits and track listing.
This is Suppedaneum no. 16.
1. Prompt [4:20]
2. Transference
[11:20]
3. Transference
Coda [5:40]
4. Tubes
- Voice [15:30]
Carol Genetti
is a Chicago-based
vocalist and composer whose work extends to sound and visual art media. Her
palette is primordial, existing in a hypothetical space where “language”
and “music” have yet to be formed and formulated into familiar cultural
patterns. Genetti’s aesthetic is one of raw
power, yet also delicate, subtle, and precise. An exquisite soloist, she is
often also heard in the company of other improvising musicians. She has
been performing in North America and Europe, mostly as a vocal improviser,
mostly in collaborations with other musicians and dancers, including Jack
Wright, Eric Leonardson, Peter Maunu, Olivia Block, Andrew Clinkman,
Albert Wildeman, Jeff Kimmel, Birgit Ulher, Aaron Zarzutzki,
Asimina Chremos, James Falzone,
Jim Dorling, and Jim Baker.
carolgenetti.info
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Gwyneth Zeleny Anderson is a depressive animist composed
mostly of water. Her practice is rooted in the ubiquity of sensation, shaped
by the handmade animation process, and fueled by awe for how, at any scale,
individuality is made of plurality. She has presented projects in
galleries, festivals, forests, and empty lots throughout the Northern
Hemisphere, including with Roman Susan, Roots & Culture, the Hyde Park
Art Center, 6018 NORTH, and the Experimental Sound Studio in Chicago; MoMA
PS1 Print Shop in New York; FRISE in Hamburg; and @ptt in Geneva.
gwynethvzanderson.com
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