Project:
Sounding Rituals,
a series of creative disturbances
by Anne-Marie Donovan
Sounding Rituals is a series of creative disturbances that premiered at the 2007 Open Ears Festival of Music and Sound in downtown Kitchener, Ontario. These primarily vocal “liberations” are created to gently interrupt and disrupt social convention with a view to expanding its borders. They expose psycho-social fault lines by questioning unwritten norms, resisting compliance, reterritorializing urban space and suggesting something ‘other’.
The Sounding Rituals do not adhere to widely held aesthetic standards of artistic excellence and beauty and can be performed by any culturally diverse group of lay-citizens.
Watch the video:
(i) Rituals (ii) Procession (iii) Protest
Listen to the radio documentary by Andrew O'Connor on the performance of Sounding Rituals, a series of creative disturbances by Anne-Marie Donovan, at the Open Ears Festival of Music and Sound, May 2007
