Despite my repeated efforts, I rarely manage to be understood with the required accuracy.
Even with clear ideas, precise communication tools, and a willing audience, understanding is still far from certain. I also have to contend with outside circumstances, which ceaselessly thwart my initial intentions.
Whatever these external obstacles may be - a noisy truck passing by, interference on the phoneline, the acoustics of a theatre scrambling my words, or a thick carpet absorbing most of my speech, communication can become difficult, and mutual understanding somewhat hazy.
The solution therefore probably lies in accepting these obstacles, and to view them - as unreliable as they may be - as our allies.
Three demonstrators present a performance which is constantly being interupted by the acoustic effects from a series of devices
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Creation date : 06/2009
with Bettina Atala, François Hiffler, Pascale Murtin and Manuel Coursin
Coproduced by GRAND MAGASIN, Centre Pompidou’s Live Entertainment Unit, IRCAM with the support of Centre Culturel André Malraux - Scène Nationale de Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy and Arts Admin (London) within the frame of Paris Calling.
