Voice Engine, 2021/2023

Voice Engine is emblematic of Barba’s experimental approach to film: it is a monumental new performance work that reconceives the relationship between cinema, the body, and the voice. This choreography of sound, set among 16mm and 35mm projectors and suspended colored glass, is activated by choral singers performing a score by Eric D. Clark. Their voices reach frequencies that trigger the projectors’ shutters. The human voice thus ignites the films—and light, sound and image interact in unforeseeable ways.

Voice Engine, 2021/2023
Voice and projectors score
With composer and performer Eric D. Clark, accompanied by Alex Aikiu, Florent Baffi, Shirley-Soa Bernard, Sara Brunel, Rita Filipe et Christiane Prince.