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Participatory workshop, choir with Bint Mbareh

Launch of the Saison Méditerranée

Saturday, May 16 — 14h30

As part of the launch of the Mediterranean Season at the Citadelle de Marseille.

Bint Mbareh offers the choir for non musicians. This method invites everyone present to use their voice in ways that are unfamiliar and often illegible, different and often contradictory to song/musicality and definitely not verbal. Exercises in the hour-long invocation include chanting a poem together, humming with variations on humming, clapping to specific rhythms and narrating stories through sounds made collectively. The simplicity of the exercises means that they are accessible for most, but usually implementing them involves learning something, overcoming an anxiety or a shame and the sounds that result from the practice are often sounds that are new to participants. One of the purposes of the choir is it acts as a technology which helps to offline the minds of participants, meaning that while everyday actions like using an online map to get somewhere or sending a voicenote all participate in making a legible online profile of the user as a consumer, the choir purposefully makes participants impossible to know by joining their voices together into an amalgam that is impossible to separate into individuals, therefore useless to a relentless information extraction machine that surrounds us.