N.Lichtig, ARCHEOPHONIES, sound scape, variable length, 2006 – ongoing

Sylables and words drawn from LETTRES FERMÉES DE L'EXTÉRIEUR are pronounced and brought into resonance through prosodic play — intonation, rhythm, breath. The resulting soundscape explores the emergence of voice at the threshold of language: a liminal space where utterance begins to detach from meaning, yet has not fully entered the realm of music. Fragments of vowels, stretched, layered, broken or suspended, compose a sonic texture that evokes a kind of proto-speech — a language before language, where phonemes drift without syntax, and speech is still forming. This is not quite song, not yet discourse, but something between: an archaeology of sound.

What remains are vocal traces, like fossilized echoes — aural imprints of a time when meaning had not yet congealed, when the voice searched blindly for shape, contact, expression. This sound work proposes a speculative listening: a return to the beginnings of sense, to the fragile moment where voice first began to name, to call, to reach.

2018 in:
CATCHING THE LIGHT, cur. by Ludwig Seyfarth, Kai 10 / Arthena Foundation, Düsseldorf, Germany.