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Opera is a dramatic city delineated in one or more zones, set to music for singers and instrumentalists. Every Tuesday of the month the zones unite and mix the dissonances. You find there an amazing cultural diversity where everyone finds their place. The people who live there are called 'los banditos'. They are quite shy and wear masks made of different colours. During their union the 'los banditos' pull off their masks and raise their voices. While they are tuning their chords, they occupy the most exotic positions.

There is also a dark side to Opera, namely the existence of a continuous noise that never leaves the urban landscape alone. This noise intensifies over the years and one day the 'los banditos' will have to leave the city, because it simply will be unbearable.

But in the meantime, they don't worry too much. Every pave, balustrade, boat buoy, flagpole or mailbox is a good guide to face and tune the voice. They all prefer to go to the largest turbine that stands slightly elevated above the city bushes. They have a code name for this place: C.Y.R.B. The people from outside the city have no idea what this code stands for, only that it refers to that place. The 'los banditos' like to rage in the turbine. It amplifies their sounds and disparities throughout the urban landscape. Their actions discolour life over the years.

Time never stands still in Opera; it keeps falling and sounds like rubbish. A seagull assists him and asks himself: "Hoooooooooooooow? Hoooooooooooooow? Hoooooooooow? Hooooooooow to go outside? How can it be okay? Hooooooooooooow?" Think of it as a daily ritual where the seagull picks the time up at noon and coordinates the day for tomorrow.

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from Reading the city, released October 21, 2021
Voices: Caroline Daish, Aleksandra Janeva, Justine Maxelon, Gaël Santisteva.
Text : Mira Sanders
Recorded on the 12th of March 2020 in ZarlarSwing Boerderie's barn

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oracle is an eyes-closed body-voice improvisation practice reading diverse spaces; from public spaces to the intimacy of private living spaces.
Each practice session is unique to the moment and context.
oracle was created by Caroline Daish (AU), Justine Maxelon (DE) and Michel Yang (US) in Belgium in 2015 as a need to collaborate, vocalise and heal. ... more

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