In line with McGuire’s recent works, he’ll present a suite of recitals and monologues to question how text, image and symbol finds their path to the mouth. Compared to his previous Suites, he’ll be sourcing these materials, either manually or programmatically, solely from the libretto of Gertrude Stein’s opera “Four Saints in Three Acts”. Synthetic and acoustic voice will interpret characters, strings, speech acts into a play consisting solely of arias, so that Stein’s literary method of insistence, which makes something exist through repeated attention, essentially becomes the form of each part in the suite. Co-curated with In vitro.
Lawrence McGuire is an artist concerned with sound and text. Presenting his work in both live and fixed settings in which voice, both in its acoustic and synthetic manifestation, is seen as a starting point for experimentation. His outputs cross the text-sound practices of the sound poets as well as machinic thinking found in computer music and sciences.
