On October 9, 14:30 CET, the Superstringtrio is presenting its first-ever online presentation of their large-scale work Incognito Ergo Sum. This piece was the result of years of preparation and featured several novel techniques of overtone singing, performed by the acknowledged overtone singers – composers – writers. Of the ± 60 or 70 minute performance, some 40 minutes were kept as an audiovisual documentation (a live video was also made, but the actual performance took place during sunset and was only bright enough at the very beginning to yield useful video materials). During the presentation, they will show the portions of the performance that were shot separately in daylight. The event includes introductions about the long process leading up to Incognito Ergo Sum, details about The Making Of and a Q&A session. It will last about 90 minutes.

 

Join the free online premiere of the overtone singing spectacle Incognito Ergo Sum by Superstringtrio, with the trio talking about ‘the making of’. Register with the link on the following page: https://voice-resonance.com/events

 

Incognito ergo sum was part of the final presentations of the PhD research “Thresholds of the audible: about the multiphony of the body” by Mark van Tongeren.

Recorded March 12, 2013, Dokzaal, Amsterdam

Theatrical direction: Horst Rickels.

Light-performance: Daphne van Tongeren

Video director: René Louter

Sound recordist: Frerik de Jonge, Kleinman Audio

Thanks to: The Academy of Creative and Performing Arts of Leiden University

Frans de Ruiter †, Tim Soekkha

 

The Superstringtrio does not play strings, counts two permanent members and sustains a holy belief in illusions. Parallel to physicists, who try to uncover the laws underlying the subtle vibrations of invisible ‘matter’, the Superstringtrio digs into the hidden order and chaos of tones. It asks itself: Do we use music to see ourselves or does music use us to see itself?

Rollin Rachele ( www.overtonesinging.com) performs, teaches and composes music all over the world and is involved in many collaborative projects involving music and theatre. His specialisation is Overtone Singing which he has been perfecting since 1979. He finished a 4 year BMus programme studying Hindustani vocal music through Trinity Laban at Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan in London. He worked with Unstructured Light, a multi-disciplinary theatre group in the same city He has recorded several albums, and produced the first book for learning and perfecting overtone singing techniques, first in Dutch (1989, with + cassette), later published in English (1996, with CD) and updated and expanded with DVDs (2010).

Rollin also created the very first music video with overtone singing, accompanied by Celtic artist Kate McKenzie and Classical Indian vocalist Ustad Mohammed Sayeed Khan.

See our earlier post about the Superstringtrio and their performances here.

Photography by Cham Horn (on top), Jochem Hartz (others).