Slate petalS seeks to explore (vocal)sound through an immersion in the electro-acoustic world, investigating new possible interactions between the human voice and electronics.

The work is based on texts and fragments by the English poet Anthony Etherin, whose poetry is characterised by acrobatic linguistic restrictions that reveal the intrinsic beauty of language. The voice projects into space different degrees of perception between proximity and distance: it hides and emerges from the stage of intelligibility in a network of morphing and mimetic relations through the resonances of various surfaces, such as the bronze of a suspended cymbal, the membrane of a drum, or the wood of a table amplified by a piezoelectric microphone.

This process leads to a  “concealment” of vocal characteristics, which are not only amplified and processed, but rather used as midi trigger of rhythmic impulses and virtual (sampled, mapped, processed) musical events.