Shaked Haninovich

OUTER VOICES is a multidisciplinary vocal work that deconstructs and reconstructs the human voice within an electronic environment. The piece takes elements such as breath, syllables, singing, and choral processing and, through manipulation, removes them from their habitual functions, reworking them into a physical, enveloping material.

The work blurs the boundary between the organic and the synthetic, inviting listeners into an immersive experience based on subtle timbral shifts and the movement of sound through space.

“Just as our bodies are a museum of evolution, so too is the structure of our psyche. There is no reason to assume that the psyche is the only thing without a history beyond the individual’s conscious life. The unconscious psyche contains all ancient images and impulses, those primordial traces left by the generations that preceded us.”  C.G. Jung

The project is an anthropological documentation of a tribe that does not actually exist. This encounter generates an artificial, invented ritual – yet one that resonates within us as something deeply and strangely familiar, as if recalling an ancient echo we have never actually heard.

Between computer and voice, a space emerges that explains nothing but invites surrender: to lose the grip on the familiar and listen to a ritual unfolding outside of time.

Thanks

Direction: Shmil Frenkel
Mix & mastering: Gil Tirosh

Thanks to my beloved family for the love and support.

Thanks to all the faculty members of the Department of New Music for their professional and personal guidance over the years.

A special thanks to Lila Mazal Yinishen and Ruth Wieder Magen for the opportunity to work together and for their precise vocal coaching and guidance.