Amazing evening of music bringing together DC’s Alma Laprida’s new project using exclusively subwoofers (w/Bryce Hackford) and the duo Voicehandler (High Zero Alum Danishta Rivero and percussionist Jacob Felix Heule).
Voicehandler plays intuitive, incantatory music grounded in the most primitive and somatic instruments — the voice and percussion — juxtaposed with contemporary, disembodied electronics.
The performance is loose and exploratory, at various times energetic and meditative. Rivero’s voice embraces noise, with the lines blurred between electronic processing and extended vocal techniques. Heule has a special interest in friction techniques, and embraces limited instrumentation – like a single drum and a single cymbal – as a commitment to exploring the depth of his instruments.
“…bizarre glossolalia, witch-like chattering, deliriously stuttering as an obsessed medium, as a distorted mouthpiece of Latina experiences. Heule… patters on predator paws or becomes very meek when the ghosts whisper as if with paranormal tape voices or increasingly only sizzling pure noise or switching off the human factor in waves of hum.” – Rigo Dittmann / Bad Alchemy (via Google Translate)
Subwoofer Duo is a new collaboration between Bryce Hackford and Alma Laprida exploring sound amplified exclusively via subwoofers in performance, installation and workshops. A subwoofer is a type of speaker that produces lower frequencies; the type that is responsible for making a car bumper bump. SD performances dialog with the architectures in which they take place (often exceeding those architectures), and have so far used electronics, synthesizers, voices, tromba marina, recordings of animals among other beings, and vibrators in their instrumentation. The custom SD sound system is currently being built.
