Name: Songs for Captured Voices
Start: 2022-03-25T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2022-03-25T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Künstlerhaus

Artist

Singer

Elaine Mitchener

Voice

Stage director

Philipp Bergmann

Thea Reifler

Künstlerhaus Besitz- und BetriebsGmbH

English

Songs for Captured Voices

Vienna

Austria

Künstlerhaus

Public

Private

Pending

Accordionist

Instrumentalist

Archlutenist

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Bassist

Bassoonist

Cellist

Clarinetist

Contrabassist

Cornettist

Flutist

Guitarist

Harper

Harpsichordist

Hornist

Lutenist

Mandoline Player

Musette de cour Player

Oboist

Organist

Percussionist

Pianist

Recorder Player

Saxophonist

Tenor Violinist

Timpani

Trombonist

Trumpeter

Tuba Player

Vibraphonist

Viola Pomposa Player

Viola da gamba

Viola d’amore Player

Violinist

Violino Piccolo Player

Violist

Actor

Broadcasting

Choir

Choreographer

Chorus Director

Chorus master

Composer

Conductor

Costume designer

Dancer

Dramaturge

Executive producer

Extra

Hairstylist

Illustrator

Librettist

Lighting designer

Makeup artist

Orchestra

Orchestra Operations

Other

Photographer

Poet

Repetiteur

Set designer

Sound designer

Stage Manager

Teacher

Translator

Video designer

Vocal coach

Wig & Makeup Designer

Writer

Writing and performance

Bass

Bass-baritone

Baritone

Mezzo-soprano

Soprano

Countertenor

Contralto

Tenor

Alto

Child vocalist

Continuo

Silent

Spoken

The performance "Songs for Captured Voices" features the voices of soldiers from the British and French overseas colonies who were interned in the Brandenburg prisoner-of-war camp Wünsdorf during the First World War. Hiendl, Knak, Reifler and Bergmann worked with sound recordings made at the time by linguists for pseudo-scientific purposes, which are accessible in what is now the Lautarachiv of the Humboldt University in Berlin. While little is known about the individuals whose voices were recorded, vocal archives of the present serve to establish their identity with more precision. The Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF – Bundesamt für Migration und Flüchtlinge) started using voice recognition software to determine the origin of refugees in 2017. This involves the recognition of dialects, creating racist attributions that have political consequences for the asylum seekers. In this project, the artists trace the history of the racialized classifications of body and voice, and the property relations associated with them. While detainees were literally stripped of their voices in order to create a racially based vocal archive, the patterns of classification derived from this are now translated into digital tools that perpetuate the racist colonial order of the past in a migratory regime. "Songs for Captured Voices" will be performed by Elaine Mitchener, an experimental singer, dancer, and composer.
 
In cooperation with Universität Mozarteum Salzburg.

Songs for Captured Voices by Hiendl, From (2022/2022), Directed by Philipp Bergmann, Thea Reifler,, Künstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria

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