Who is Rebbeca Lennon?
Rebbeca Lennon is a British artist that works in various fields, those fields being video, text, performance, sound and music. She uses these fields to experiment with non-linear rhythms using her body, including her voice.
For me I found her lecture very interesting from a non vocalist point of view, and how she used her voice and how it created these dense layers using just the voice. It’s very reminicent of early Joan La Barbara work like ‘Twelvesong‘ off the album ‘Voice Is The Original Instrument’. But Rebbeca is very much doing her own thing with it which I found very interesting. Like on her peice ‘THE KNOT COMMONS 2021‘ She opens the peice with this rythmic vocal line. Then overlaying that with the phrase “This is mine, this is your’s’. Then using her voice to create a gasping noise that almost sounds like a drum. Also laying mouth clicks and different harmonies of the phrase “This is mine, this is your’s”
The way she used visuals was very complementary to the composition. The visuals of mosqitous sucking blood to the rythym of her voice was a good use of using music and visuals that are very different but go togther fluently.
This talk made me want to work with vocalists more (which I am doing as of now) and how I could utilies vocals in my work in the future.
References
Lennon, R. (2021). THE KNOT COMMONS 2021. [online] Vimeo. Available at: https://vimeo.com/641797899
www.youtube.com. (n.d.). Joan La Barbara – Twelvesong. [online] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SvVhDMLTbs
rebeccalennon.co.uk. (n.d.). rebeccalennon.co.uk. [online] Available at: https://rebeccalennon.co.uk/