In the 2009 édition of the festival "Sololala" in Berlin I was invited to perform the piece by Alvin Lucier, written in 1975. You find the link to the website of ausland HERE
bird and person dyning
Tickle the speakers with your ears
In the performance piece "bird and person dyning", a performer equipped with binaural headphones makes the soundscape, generated by 4 loudspeakers and a birdlike sound source set up in their centre, decipherable for the audience.
The difficulty, as often in Lucier's pieces, lies in the simplicity of the prescription that demands a great deal of precision in the execution.
I move through the space, cautiously, the binaural headphones on my head like antennas make the invisible sound waves intelligible. I oscillate between the sheer catching and amplifying of the present sound waves and the processing of sound by moving through space and sound. By slowly and carefully inclining my head I explore the point where the binaural headset, bird sound and speakers interact - as a finger explores another person's ganglions, until the ticklish body collapses by overstimulation, rolling across the floor wincing, laughing and panting.
And then back again to the utter experience of sound.