{"id":2037,"date":"2017-02-18T08:12:29","date_gmt":"2017-02-18T08:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/?p=2037"},"modified":"2017-02-17T12:28:40","modified_gmt":"2017-02-17T12:28:40","slug":"peninsula-arts-contemporary-music-festival-2017-voice-2-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/2017\/02\/18\/peninsula-arts-contemporary-music-festival-2017-voice-2-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Peninsula Arts Contemporary Music Festival 2017: Voice 2.0"},"content":{"rendered":"

Friday 24th to Sunday 26th February 2017 <\/strong><\/p>\n

The House<\/a>\u00a0at the University of Plymouth<\/strong><\/p>\n

Celebrating 12 years of musical innovation<\/em><\/p>\n

Organised in partnership with Plymouth University\u2019s Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music (ICCMR)<\/a><\/p>\n

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Ever since the dawn of humanity, voice has always been our primary source for communication. Our ability to evolve sophisticated verbal languages distinguishes us from other species but voice also transmits other kinds of emotional and social information in ways that written words are not able to transmit. And of course, let us not forget the undeniable expressive power of the singing voice.<\/p>\n

Paradoxically, voice seems to be losing ground to other means of communication. One might say that new communication technologies are to blame. For instance, back to the invention of silent cinema people realized that pictures could speak a thousand words. Indeed, this trend became entrenched in our society today: notwithstanding the fact that we can record voice with our mobile phones, people generally prefer to take photographs instead.<\/p>\n

Movies now combine audio and vision, but voice is often regarded as the poor cousin of image. More disturbingly, recent studies on usage of mobile phones have shown that texting has taken over making voice calls in the USA and in most of Western Europe.<\/p>\n

What is happening? Is voice becoming obsolete? Is technology really to blame here? Or would it be the case that voice, as we used to know it, is going through an upgrading process to be able to express matters of the present times?<\/p>\n

VOICE 2.0 offers a glimpse of how musicians, scientists and linguists are re-inventing voice through an ambitious programme exploring new means, forms and usages of voice in communication and musical creativity.<\/p>\n

It will premiere new compositions by University of Plymouth composers and guests, including the world premiere of a concert for a beatboxer with an orchestra in her mouth, a choir of real and virtual singers and a fully-fledged invented language, created specially for the festival by David J. Peterson, the inventor of the language Dothraki, of the series Game of Thrones<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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The composers involved in the Peninsula Arts Contemporary Music Festival 2017 include:<\/p>\n