BOUCHE Bée vs VINST

for ‘The singer and the song festival’ curated by HOME

With Petri Huurinainen  (acoustic guitar, sampler), Sebastian Lexer (VINST), Emmanuelle Waeckerlé (voice, max patches)

This research project aims to explore digital-human relationships at the edge of Language.

An improvised dialogue between VINST and Bouche Bée resulting in an unpredictable encounter between E.W real and virtual self (VINST) controlled by Sebastian Lexer, accompanied by Huurinainen’s brief melodies, looped rhythms, odd sounds and atmospheres.

VINST is a unique vocal instrument, part human part virtual – a body without organs – responding to touch but also to mood and sensibility. It consists of my body image displaying points of sonic sensitivity. The sounds are pre- or non- linguistic, and are based on how the body reacts to touch and how it produces sound. I personally derive as much pleasure playing (with) my virtual self as from watching others doing so.

VINST vocabulary is based on vowels used as pure tones combined with consonants as percussive and rythmic interventions, the natural sounds of emotions (laughing, crying, sighing,….) and sensations ( pain, pleasure…) and a few phonemes which are unique to VINST. Around 50 different sounds

VINST has been the vehicle for many fruitful collaborations and dialogues with artists, writers, musicians, academics and audiences, around issues of communication and translation across languages and borders in an increasingly global and virtual world.

Bouche Bée [boosh bay, a French phrase that translates as “open-mouthed, gaping, gawping) was formed in 2005 as the duo of Emmanuelle Waeckerlé on voice and Petri Huurinainen on guitar. It consists of free and structured improvisation around my/VINST vocal repertoire of extended human inarticulation and non-verbal sounds and its graphic scoring system.

Bouche Bée vs VINST  @ Theatre Museum (2006 ,extract)

Bouche Bée vs VINST was also performed for Once upon time, The Maltings, Farnham (25/03 2009)

VINST³

A unique vocal instrument, part human part virtual – a body without organs – responding to touch but also to mood and sensibility. It consists of my body image displaying points of sonic sensitivity. The sounds are pre- or non- linguistic, and are based on how the body reacts to touch and how it produces sound. I personally derive as much pleasure playing (with) my virtual self as from watching others doing so.