Inside-Out
INSIDE-OUT, a sound art performance
Introduction booklet:
Documentation
INSIDE- OUT: A Sound Art Performance
Firstly, INSIDE-OUT involves the exteriorization of internal sounds of the human body. Except by nurses and doctors, such sounds are rarely heard, analysed or explored. We generally forget we sound. However, such vibrations may reflect the very meaning of life. The internal rhythm of our body not just influences but is also influenced by our mind. The balance of these forces is directly influent in our daily heath.
Bringing body sounds to our ears may improve our familiarity with ourselves. The inside-out music involves the manipulation of internal body sounds. These sounds are, at the same time, musical material and stimuli for other musical objects.
Bodily Elements
The throat area, when operated in a very low stimulus can produce rich harmonics that cannot be done loudly – the internal singing. Extremely high-pitched sounds and chords are possible in such singing.
The audio signal of body sounds is used as reference for microcontrollers to drive motors and light bulbs. The motors’ traction is used to play instruments such as gong, berimbau, harp, and percussion effects that, combined with the live body sounds, generate a mantric soundscape which resemble that of shamanistic rituals.
Exteriorisation/Technology

INSIDE-OUT is influenced by the works of Murray Shafer, John Cage, Tom Rice and Evelyn Glennie. It is also inspired in Alvin Lucier’s Music for Solo Performer (1965). The ideas resulted from a year of research in the relations between sound and health and two years of part-time work at the Royal Alexandra Children’s Hospital as health-care cleaner, which also has provided me the means to afford the course in Performance and Visual Arts at the University of Brighton.
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