OPEN CALL

DEADLINE 26 MAR 

BLURT - SONIC EXPERIMENTS IN TEXT

blurt is an experimental platform supporting artists to develop text-based works for performance and live-to-air broadcast on RTM.FM. In this testing-site for testing text, TACO! invites artists to consider, with us, radio broadcast as an expanded form of publishing. We perform to publish, which is to say, to make public. And our moment of thinking is live on air!


TACO! is seeking proposals for sonic experiments in text: aural encounters, vernacular enquiries, conversations, radio plays and other weird waves. We’re listening to the interference between text and speech, address and reception, writing and mediation. We’re thinking about:

•What are the aural possibilities of a text? What does the utterance of language do? Where is the threshold between sound and speech, if there is one at all? And how might this act upon language?

•How does the sonic body of language reveal itself in the composition of a text? How might a text become a score? What embodied resonances does a disembodied radio-text produce?

•How does radio change how we tune into a text? How does broadcasting act upon the site of textual reception? How does a live speech-act constitute an audience? How might scriptive practices be transformed by their live aural performance and publishing?


TACO! will support four artists or artist groups to develop and test work over a four-week research and development period, over the months of April and May. This will culminate in blurt, a public performance series at TACO! and broadcast live on RTM.FM.

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