Simon Vincent - Falling Man Rising Woman (2015) Conclusion by visionofsound published on 2015-10-07T07:27:19Z Commissioned by Lena von Geyso and Elisabeth Pichler (D21, Leipzig). “ ...FALLING MAN, RISING WOMAN... “ for Solo Voice and Electronics reassesses Germaine Greer’s podium speech in answer to Norman Mailer and the short poem by Charlotte Perkins Gilman entitled “Locked In”. The solo performer chants in an intense mantra-like whisper Perkins Gilman’s text for almost the entire duration of the 26-minute work, bringing herself to a state of exhaustion, deeply confined within the bounds of her costume. These whispers are transformed live, fragmented and diffused through a stereo space in such a way that they are rendered incomprehensible. The performer, wearing a white face mask allowing no facial expression to be seen, is both locked inside this incomprehensible text, as well as surrounded by transformations of Greer’s speech, which become ethereal choirs, encasing the performer as an electroacoustic aura. The conclusion of the work was recently published in The Wire Magazine's WIRETAPPER #38 and the compiliation CD 'ESCAPE' by Edition DEGEM. Genre solo voice
