what is the word

About this project

Poets, especially sonic poetry, often treat words as music; Samuel Beckett regarded every word as an insult to silence, and ChatGPT churns 12 pages of them in a matter of moments. The flow and stream of words is a highly (im)personal treat of creative beings and one of the most music-like aspects of any language. Compositions in our concert take the cue from György Kurtág’s seminal composition to chart a sensual and intellectual journey from the silence of the abyss, through the birth of words to mechanic blabbering from historic sound-producing automatons.