Vibrational Semantics
The publications and sound works in the series explore the voice’s ability to shift seamlessly between signification and sonority, from speech sound to noise. Questions of linguistic ambiguity, embodied voicing and points where feeling and meaning overlap are investigated in relation to the place and presence of the performed voice. So far, this has included visual scores, creative essays, interdisciplinary writing and sound works commissioned from artists, writers, performers and vocalists.
Vibrational Semantics has been run by artist and writer Samuel Brzeski since 2021, and is based in Bergen, Norway.
Installation view from the exhibition "Infernal Monologue", in which 666 books of 666 pages are translated into a specially commissioned illegible typography based on the illegible semantics of Black Metal logos. A conceptual book, art object and book object, with an accompanying essay pamphlet to be produced.
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Tips of the Sung is a collection of interdisciplinary texts from artist and writer Samuel Brzeski composed over the past five years whilst he has been Associate Artist at Lydgalleriet. The collection brings together performance scripts for voice and video with newly composed texts for the page.
Centring on the vibrations of the voice, the texts exist somewhere between signification and delirium, at times making more sound than sense. The texts are full of bumbling mumbles, meandering hums, homophones, inner voices, affirmations, motivations, subvocalisations, resolutions, errors in speech production, peach seduction, car maintenance manuals, self-help fallacies, roomy echo chambers, overheard language lessons, morning meditations, and other forms of verbal rehearsal at the limits of language.
Designed by Mads Andersen.
128 pages
130 x 190mm
offset printed
french flaps with deboss
edition of 300
A loose leaf visual score based on Clara’s Paralingual Index, a notation device that denotes extra-lingual utterances such as breaths, sighs, pauses and mutters. Mosconi uses this transcription method to record conversations around bilinguality and translation. Here, she has transcribed a conversation with Sara, which can be recited, read, or displayed by the reader. With an accompanying essay from Mosconi.
11 pages
90 x 410mm
risograph printed
edition of 150