Caroline de Lannoy - 'Illusion'

Caroline de Lannoy - 2008
‘Illusion’ is a performance-based work that deals with the relationships between communication and perception, between the spoken words and its equivalent in the visual realm. The work investigates the distortion of sensory perception, revealing how we normally organize and interpret sensory stimulation. Accompanied on stage by an audio tape recorder and loudspeakers, I combine live speech with digital delays, extended-vocal techniques and sampled sounds. I electronically alter my voice, layer upon layer upon layer, to create a different composite vocal image. I use audiotape machines for delay effects producing changing overtones and sounds so that certain frequencies are gradually emphasized until eventually the words become unintelligible. Here verbal and non-linguistic sounds are included within the scope of language.
Work written, composed and performed by Caroline de Lannoy.
Caroline de Lannoy writes short 'scores' for simple actions.