My Body Doing Its Best Without Me, And Then You See The Mouth Open As If It Wanted To Say Something, by Christof Migone & Alexandre St-Onge

My Body Doing Its Best Without Me, And Then You See The Mouth Open As If It Wanted To Say Something

by Christof Migone & Alexandre St-Onge

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A 6-panel cd sleeve with a 12-page booklet featuring the soundtracks of four performances. All audio was significantly reedited and remixed in 2022 for this publication.

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1.	l’étranglement 22:08	info	buy track
2.	Vito Acconci’s undoing 10:29	info	buy track
3.	seize me by the horns 09:03	info	buy track
4.	Disclosure 14:15	info	buy track

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Four works based on four performances. The performances were first presented in 2000-2001. The audio documentation from these was reworked substantially in 2021-2022.

l’étranglement (2000-2022):

Strangling the love out of each other while guest André-Éric Létourneau checks his pulse and tracks his blood flow using a medical device. We placed contact mics on each other’s throats. The throats swallowed, the strangling arms shook and sweated.

Performed at Casa del Popolo, Montréal, July 29, 2000. An excerpt appeared on the CD accompanying Christof Migone’s Sound Voice Perform (Errant Bodies Press, 2005). This version of l’étranglement lasts the total duration of the performance. The video was edited and mixed in 2021 (glitches in video courtesy of mismatched codecs).

Vito Acconci’s undoing (2001-2021):

Dedicated to all salivaphiles.

Inspired by Vito Acconci’s video Waterways: 4 Saliva Studies (1971), Alexandre uses a CD to welcome his spit, and Christof slowly tilts his spit bottle. Both videos were performed in 2001 and mixed together in 2021. The soundtrack to the original piece by Acconci (used by permission) as well as undo’s remix, Vito Acconci’s undoing, appeared on a CD release by squint fucker press in 2001 (squint 00D).

seize me by the horns (2000-2022):

Stuffing canned snails into our mouths, ears, noses—we mined our bucal cavities for fluid sonorities—then we deranged our electronics.

The recording of the performance in a kitchen on the Plateau in Montréal appeared on the last track of undo’s (Christof Migone & Alexandre St-Onge) first publication and the inaugural release of squint fucker press in 2000, un sperme qui meurt de froid en agitant faiblement sa petite queue dans les draps d’un gamin (squint 00A). The same year we performed the piece in front of a live audience at the No Music Festival in London, Ontario. The contorted textual component in the video is from “Turn, turn, turn: undo’s dizzy tactics”, a performative presentation presented at the first Tuning Speculation: Experimental Aesthetics and the Sonic conference, November 1-2, 2013, at Arraymusic in Toronto. The video of the performance was edited and mixed in 2021.

Disclosure (2001-2021):

One, laying flat along a corridor. Two, hiding in a small space. Three, holding the arm of the other.

Disclosure was performed four times over three days for the PUBLIC SPACES/PRIVATE PLACES series curated by Paul Couillard for FADO, June 28-30, 2001. The location was an empty apartment at 228 1/2 Parliament St., Toronto.

An excerpt of the audio plus photo documentation and the artist statement were originally published in Surface Tension: Problematics of Site (Errant Bodies Press, 2003). The video of the performance was edited and mixed in 2021.

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released May 19, 2023

mastering: Jesse Osborne-Lanthier
graphic design: Atanas Bozdarov

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Christof Migone Toronto, Ontario

sonic & somatic, language & voice, intimacy & complicity, sound & silence, rhythmics & kinetics, translation & referentiality, stillness & imperceptibility, structure & improvisation, play & pathos, pedagogy & unlearning, failure & endurance, bodies & performance. ... more

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