Off-Imagination – Pistes Poétiques & Sonic Chambers

This Off-Imagination event is offered in partnership with Rhizome.

Voicing 101 (6:30 to 7:30 p.m.)

Looking to pick up some tips about reading your work in public? This practice-based one-hour workshop will present some of the basics and help you to explore your voice: learn about volume, dynamics, timing; how to warm up your voice; and how to explore different ways that your unique voice can embody texts. No previous public reading experience required. Simply come prepared to have fun and explore vocalizing work with others.

In English and French. Limited spaces available.

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Pistes poétiques & Sonic Chambers (8:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.)

A bilingual sonic performance of excerpts from two recent works by Oana Avasilichioaei—Chambersonic (Talonbooks, 2024) and Huit pistes (Le Noroît, 2024)—that explores poetic creation and mechanical, vocal, and electronic sound.

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Oana Avasilichioaei (www.oanalab.com) interweaves sound, poetry, performance, and translation to expand and trouble ideas of language, histories, polyphonic structures, and borders of listening. She has created many performance/sound works that mix electronics, ambient textures, noise, and vocal play, published seven collections of poetry hybrids, including most recently Chambersonic (Talonbooks, 2024), award-nominated Eight Track (Talonbooks, 2019), and Limbinal (Talonbooks, 2015), and written a libretto for a one-act opera, Cells of Wind (FAWN Chamber Collective, 2022–24). Based in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal, she was an artist-in-residence at Simon Fraser University (Vancouver, 2018), OBORO (Montreal, 2021), and Rhizome (Quebec City, 2024).