"If the sensual dominant of a performance is visual (if you’re
there, live, at the club), then the aural emerges as that which is given
in its fullest possibility by the visual" (Fred Moten, 171)
This quotation allows me to finally put words on an emotion that I feel for a long time. There is clearly a link between the visual and the oral of a performance. Sensuality emerges in the way we look. It's intrinsic, so, in my opinion, it's a personal thing and it's a sensation that is different in every individual who lives exactly the same moment. For example, the choice of the song that plays in the car, in your ears in the subway, when you train or when you do the housework is a reflection of the way you feel and want to go. feel. This sensuality is perceived in the way we want to live an emotion. Let's take another example, a music show. I went to see Charlotte Cardin, a Quebec composer-songwriter at the Metropolis. The performance I attended greatly allowed me to take a tour in my own self if I could afford the phrase. I sang, I danced, I watched, but mostly I lived something. The way we feel things reveals a feeling so satisfying.
In short, I think this phrase from Fred Moten points out exactly what a performance can reveal in a person in the way we listen and watch. All our senses invite us to enter in a sort of magical trance.
Olivia L.
Very important, this quotation, and the experience you share with us, Olivia. But also a reminder that this is what Fred is trying to move beyond, this is the "before" he speaks of when we asks us to bring the visual before the aural, to hear not the sound-image but the more-than of sound itself, the sound that vibrates in the break.
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