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Impure Thinking Practices and Clinical Acts: The sonorous becomings of Heidi Fast

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 March 2009

Gascia Ouzounian
Gascia Ouzounian
Affiliation:
School of Music and Sonic Arts, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland, BT7 1NN, UK E-mail: gascia@gmail.com
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Abstract

This article introduces the recent sound works of Heidi Fast, a Finnish voice and performance artist. Fast’s creative practice operates between art and philosophy, and articulates several ‘zones of becoming’: what Fast designates as ‘the clinical’, ‘the virtual’ and ‘vocal thought-material’. Using a methodology of routing, the article shows how these zones emerge as aesthetic, ethical and political concerns within Fast’s work.

Since 2005, Fast’s sound works have variously taken shape as miniature concerts, social sculptures, imaginary soundscapes and environmental music performances. Drawing upon the writings of theorists who have helped shape her practice, this article argues that Fast uses sound and voice to propose an ‘actualising philosophy’. This philosophy actualises virtualities (unrealised potentials), affecting transformative shifts through tiny mutations in perceptions and behaviours.

Type
Research Article
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Organised Sound , Volume 14 , Issue 1 , April 2009 , pp. 75 - 81
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009

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