πTon is an intriguing sound installation; it constitutes a new stage in the Cod.Act research into plastic and sound organicity. It results from an experiment on the relation between the distortion of an elastic structure and the synthetic transformation of the human voice.
A long rubber tube, closed in a loop, is animated by contortions and undulations like an invertebrate body. Surrounded by a group of four dumb human beings equipped with strange vocal prostheses, the creature seems to try to release itself from this disturbing presence in vain. Its efforts and sufferings excite the curiosity of the four human beings and become the subject of primary and sophisticated polyphonic rituals only constituted by synthesized voices.
From raw materials and natural physical phenomena, πTon associates organic movement and vocal expression in their most primitive forms. The result is a striking sound and visual event that sends the spectator back to the origins of his behavior.
Credits:
Cod.Act are Michel and André Décosterd (CH)
