hoquet / hiccups
(‘being double mousy with the uncle’)
uncle and aunt
two lonely wired boxes on an empty stage.
parleying. warbling, ranting, coughing.
or just murmuring wearily to themselves.
two radio sets play together in the barren space, filling it with
ever-changing clashes of words and scraps of sound. relieving
themselves of the weight of meaning accumulated over the
years.
two endlessly looping bodies rubbing against each other work
their sonic encounters out into the audience.
a new radio programme every time.
an everlasting singsong.
blablabor
annette schmucki and reto friedmann
Schmucki works with language as music. Currently, she is engaged with durations and encounters of projected words, speech topographies, and cardinal directions.
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