Vocal Streams, Posthuman Voicing: Theory and Techniques
Workshop with Agustín Genoud
Workshop dates: July 13, July 20, July 27, and August 3.
1:00 PM to 2:30 PM Berlin time
Description
This course explores the voice as a territory where poetic, political, biological, and technological forces converge. Through a series of theoretical and somatic investigations, we will move across human, animal, machine, and hybrid vocalities, engaging posthuman and materialist approaches to the voice.
Cannibalism, monstrous vocality, and contemporary AI voice models will serve as speculative mirrors for rethinking vocal performance and embodiment.
Open to artists, researchers, performers, and curious practitioners alike, the course invites participants to approach the voice as a mode of bodily, cognitive, social, transpersonal, and technological inquiry.
Class 1: What ecosystemizes a body? Vocal listening. Resonant territorialization. An ocean of organic and inorganic beings. Becoming membrane. Knowing the world vocally.
Class 2: Organic and inorganic vocal memories. Tracks and mnemonic vocalities. Organic and inorganic looping agents. A sociality of memories.
Class 3: Vocal monsters. The countershape of language. Animal and robotic vocality. Vocal dreaming. Computational and agential vocal spectrality.
Class 4: Resonant fields. The inner body is our first outer space. Resonant geometries. Stone bodies. Resonant interdimensionality.
English, 14,8 x 21 cm
166 pages, ISBN 978-3-912778-00-7
€73,00
In Vocal Streams, Agustín Genoud explores the voice as a living field. Drawing on decades of performance, workshops, and theoretical inquiry, he reimagines vocality by tracing unexpected connections between the human body and the spaces, machines, and histories that shape the voice. Blending essay, theory, autobiography, and practical exercises drawn from his Trans-Synthetic Vocal Workshops, the book follows the voice through bodily organs, resonant caves, microphones, ancestral architecture, animal songs, and AI-generated voices. Along the way, it asks where voices begin and end, how they shape the boundaries between inside and outside, and what becomes possible when we stop treating the voice as exclusively human. At once intimate and speculative, Vocal Streams is both a meditation on singing and a practical invitation to sing.
About the author:
Agustín Genoud (1984, Argentina) is a performer, musician, and academic specializing in contemporary voice and posthumanism. His work focuses on designing systems that expand vocal production through machinic and animalistic gestures, exploring processes of vocal dehumanization and sound deterritorialization. He is a recipient of the Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD (2024) scholarship. His performances and workshops have reached global platforms such as Documenta 15, CTM Festival, and the Teatro Colón. He conducted workshops, talks, and presentations in Freie Universität Berlin, Bauhaus Universität, and National University for the Arts, bridging the gap between experimental artistic practice and academic research in sound art and new media.