- Through the act of exploring her own phonatory apparatus, Elena Boillat has embarked upon a research process centered around the vibrant issue of the union between body and voice, in an attempt to rediscover language ​​by freeing it from the weight of meaning. Among the projects supported by PREMIO Schweiz 2024, P A R T I T U R A Z E R O is a performative act that brings to light a breathing, voiced physicality by plunging it into a space that is in turn bare, stripped and filled with silence; as with a corporeal poetry that is sometimes whispered, at other times ‘pushed’ into the ears and eyes of those who are listening and watching. An abstract kind of situation, devoid of any narration and intent on placing pure feeling at the heart of it all.

Inspired by the structure of the sonata form and that of some rituals, Elena composes and performs the score by starting from the very auditory reminiscences inhabiting it: physical resistance and the flow of breath are employed to generate an extreme vocal emission (by alternating resonators and dysphonic singing), in contrast to the slow succession and dilation of both movements and moments of quietness.

This body and voice wish to establish an intimate dialogue with the imagination and acoustic perception of those who are inevitably called to follow them on a journey characterized by ever-changing boundaries.-

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