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Our vocal gesture, the unexpected return ticket to be able to welcome our voice.
When in 2009 the young Georgian president Mikhail Saakahvili commissioned Michele De Lucchi the design of an object for the city of Tbilisi who evoked peace and the possible dialogue between distant ethnic groups and cultures and between past and present, the brilliant artist/man/architect He thought and designed a bridge that joined the two banks of the Mtkvari river.
Listening monument, an attempt to regenerate the word, the bridge by joining two banks, combines the plural the singular voice of the verb communicating and does it in sinusoidal, imaginative, linear but incontination forms based on pillars that allignano, deep, in the underwater land.
The bridge over the Mtkvari river is one of the brightest and most eloquent images of the power and dynamics of the vocal gesture; Example of the need for each bank to tend to the other shore.
If the shore where we are sitting represents the semantic fence where words, expressions, verses only make sense for us or for those who are very close to us or too close, the landing of those words, expressions, lexics to the other shore marks their possibility of sharing and expansion of contours.
But to reach the other shore our being, our gesture must relax, our body must become visible to the inhabitants of the "beyond".
The modification that this simple desire shape in our body and in our mind, and therefore in our voice, are impressive.
I see the other shore with its inhabitants and I am seen by them, I put myself in the condition of being seen and heard: here is the attack.
Because the body, in fact, is prepared, making available all its resonance cavities and the consonance surfaces, the larynx drops, the sensory -cognitive machine chooses the intonation, volume and the right dynamics to make the delivery and eloquence of the message.
Recreet in one's imagination an geography of the rivers, the other banks and its populations, in relationship with communication with the spaces and with our interlocutors, is one of the most powerful tools that exists in the rediscovery of anthropology and vocal technique.
Furthermore, just as the bridge allows us not only to reach the other shore but also to be reached, our vocal gesture will not be a one -way ticket but rather return; We will bring home the unexpected and everything a trip allows you to meet.
The words, expressions, the vocality with which we started will not be the same on our return.
A welcoming vocality and not only proposing/overbearing/penetrating, and this is interesting to note the timbre differences between a "One Way" or "Return ticket" vocality, the first and round the second.
