John Bingham-Hall
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I am a researcher, writer, and cultural organiser based in Paris and Marseille. My current work focuses on the ways how climate adaptation strategies are transforming the cultures and politics of the urban public sphere, engaging critical humanities, creative research methods, and artistic works to address sonic, choreographic, and narrative dimensions of change. I draw on a training in music and urban studies, as well as a decade of work connecting arts and urbanism with Theatrum Mundi, to explore the complex dynamics that shape public life in cities through a series of cross-cutting threads including ecology, infrastructure, sound, movement, culture, and voice.

 

I work with universities, cultural organisations, and private practices to lead learning programmes, international knowledge exchange, and collaborative, cross-disciplinary research around these approaches. See my LinkedIn or Instagram for more, or email me to contact me about working together.


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Staging Vocalities

Many to many, many to few, few to many, one to one, or just one voice alone or transformed by technologies.


What do we notice as we start to look at cities as systems of spaces for these different configurations of voice? How could new configurations of song lead to new architectures – what would a space be like in which 100s of people sing for just one individual, or where two choirs sing to each other. What kinds of social encounter, narrating and remembering could these configurations lead to?

From stadiums to tiktok challenges, drunken singalongs to operatic lament, the merging of city sounds and technologies with song, or a lone voice that sings through the silence, music stages voices in different kinds of collectivity. This radio show explores the seductiveness, the collective madness and the power dynamics of song through its vocal configurations and relationships to the architectural spaces that stage them.

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Tracklist

Magic System – “Magic is in the Air” (2014)

The Beatles at Shea Stadium (Youtube video)

Unknown Artist – Chants from the Greek Orthodox Liturgy

The Knife – Heartbeats (2003)

Emeka Ogboh, Ilpo – Lagos State of Mind (2016)

ROSALÍA – DE AQUÍ NO SALES: Cap 4 (Disputa) (2018)

SOPHIE – Faceshopping (2018)

Chop Daily, Eugy – My Touch

Pauline Oliveros, Stuart Dempster, Panaiotis – Suiren (1989)

MHYSA – Glory Be Black (2017)

Alvin Lucier, Simone Conforti – I Am Sitting in a Room (1969)

Henry Purcell (rec. Jesse Norman & English Chamber Orchestra) – Thy Hand Belinda (1689)



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Staging Vocalities radio show