The Voice of (one's*) Conscience

JUNE 2008

DarkRoom Magazine:

New Interview

"The avant-garde as such does not indicate a sector or a genre, it is by definition an a-sector, it indicates precisely a movement (cultural, human, artistic action) which "programmatically" aims at the research and experimentation of new expressive forms, in controversy with the traditional ones (such as the categorization itself and the conception of human thought by sectors): the program consists in not having a program, assimilable to known codes and techniques, or in an indifferentiation of programs and codes, in a cultural reticularity from which the absolutely new emerges. In this regard, I assert: «My "I in research" moves from the questioning of every certainty within the methods and techniques, within the approaches (... ) If we are involved in experimentation, it goes without saying that we have just a purely didactic interest in categories, indices, names and definitions. Some time ago we brought about a halt, an inhibitory action, recognizing them as mechanisms - usual - of the cultural status quo. Let's talk about the methods originally proposed to us. Methods and techniques known and already given that we refused to practice, because of imitation and false perception.» [R. Daniel, IV. The self in research (vocality) in: Voce Sola (collection of short essays on vocal speech), currently online on my website.] As for judgements, they don't interest me."

Read the full interview (In Italian) on DarkRoom Magazine. Translation to English will be available shortly.

*Post Scriptum: Voce Sola actually began in 2008, as an "online periodical publication), i.e. the work of defining notes and fragments written in prose on vocal speech, the subject of research for the last years". And so we read on this site in the Texts section, when some fragments of essays were published in 2008. These were then removed in 2009, when we began to plan these writings for a book and broader analysis, and so the work on the encyclopedic book Voce Sola has been announced since 2009.

We welcomed with enormous positivity the title that Filippozzi gave to the interview reported here, in the knowledge that we have at heart of the adjective word "own": not as something merely subjective and not shareable, but rather as something that is proper, that is, typical, adjuvant, of the pure faculty of knowing, tending to: give rise to a more proper and more our understanding of a completely human property, proper and ours (...) proper apprehension as much as we breathe, such as to be authentically understood in us more originally as already ours and proper, and not already as a reflection as it is possessed by a socio-utilitarian system such as the current one. [Romina Daniele, Essay on Vocal Speech 2009-2024]