{"id":91,"date":"2016-04-12T19:03:31","date_gmt":"2016-04-12T18:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heatherconnelly.co.uk\/translationzones\/?page_id=91"},"modified":"2017-05-17T22:32:03","modified_gmt":"2017-05-17T21:32:03","slug":"birmingham","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.heatherconnelly.co.uk\/translationzones\/?page_id=91","title":{"rendered":"A Stuttering"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Translation Zone: A Stuttering<\/strong><\/h2>\n

This\u00a0live performance\u00a0is\u00a0one of the outcomes of Heather’s Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Cultural Engagement Fellowship with Birmingham City University (BCU) and the Library of Birmingham.<\/p>\n

It is\u00a0the\u00a0first live work produced and\u00a0devised by Heather Connelly, under the direction of vocalist and composer Soul Zisso and arranger Daniel Galbreath (both currently PhD candidates at the Conservatoire – BCU). This work marks a significant shift in Heather’s practice as she moves\u00a0away from creating surround sound works with pre-recorded vocals, to layering and mixing voices in real time, working with\u00a0individuals from different backgrounds and cultures.\u00a0This work includes performers speaking Arabic, English, Finnish, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Japanese, Mandarin, Portuguese, traditional Taiwanese and Thai.<\/p>\n

The performance has been developed during a series of three workshops enabling the\u00a0performer\/participants (non professional) to become comfortable performing with each other. The process of making and devising the work is an important part of Heather’s research, the work has evolved over a period of months as she interviewed, recorded, edited and listened intently to the sounds of each language, their alphabet, tones and trying to understand how the particular sounds were being made, being voiced. One of the more unexpected challenges was translating and communicating ideas and working experimentally across disciplinary and linguistic boundaries – to guide and navigate and articulate effectively with a large and enthusiastic international team without whom this project could not have been realised.<\/p>\n

*The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funds world-class, independent researchers in a wide range of subjects: ancient history, modern dance, archaeology, digital content, philosophy, English literature, design, the creative and performing arts, and much more.\u00a0 This financial year the AHRC will spend approximately \u00a398m to fund research and postgraduate training in collaboration with a number of partners. The quality and range of research supported by this investment of public funds not only provides social and cultural benefits but also contributes to the economic success of the UK. For further information on the AHRC, please go to:\u00a0www.ahrc.ac.uk<\/strong><\/a><\/span>
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Documentation of the\u00a0performance\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Photographs and film stills by Lauren Hall, Heather Connelly, Tom Kilby and Johrah Abdul Rahman Al-Homied.<\/p>\n

Location 1:<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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Location 5:<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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* more photographs of the event and the process of making the work can be seen by scrolling down below.<\/em><\/p>\n

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The participants: <\/strong><\/h3>\n

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The team included photographers, film makers and graphic designer who worked closely with me to capture the nature of the project into a single image and logo. The performers are all bi- or multi-lingual speakers – none of whom are trained performers. See\u00a0participant profiles<\/a>\u00a0for further details.<\/p>\n

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The process<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The research\u00a0began with each speaker spending 1-2 hours articulating and analysing the sounds of their first language (for most) in and through English with an monolingual English inquirer (artist-researcher). During this time the participants\u00a0became more and more conscious of their (usually first) language as they recited and analysed the sounds that they had been using instinctively since infancy. Each participant was interrupted and questioned, by Heather, about where the sounds were made, where they came from as she tried to emulate, to emit the same sound from her mouth, from her body.<\/p>\n

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Workshop 1:<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Photographs by Tom Kilby<\/p>\n

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Workshop 2:<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Photographs and film stills by Tom Kilby and\u00a0Johrah Abdul Rahman Al-Homied.<\/p>\n

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Workshop 3:<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Photographs and film stills by Tom Kilby and\u00a0Johrah Abdul Rahman Al-Homied<\/p>\n

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We met at the library to prepare and transcribe the score:<\/p>\n

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