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Oliver Beer
Resonance Project: The Cave
The Cave extends the principle of identifying and instrumentalizing the natural frequency of an architectural space to the Paleolithic painted caves of Dordogne, specifically Grotte de Font-de-Gaume. Unlike other spaces previously explored in the 'Resonance Project,' these caves are not man-made, even if their cave drawings bear the markings of the earliest human creative activity. Beer worked with each of the singers, teaching them to stimulate the space modes, to transform and to displace their voices without any electronic amplification. In this way, he plays the notes of the cave as though it were an instrument. The cave becomes an extension of the voice, the singer’s body becomes the resonating organ of the cave.
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