Diaphonie

Diaphonie is a musical explication of Listening as mishearing. Its title refers to the ironic multiplicity of the word’s etymology: as overhearing, as polyphony, as dissonance, and as phonemic correspondence. Through seven characterized ‘misreadings’, each attracted to a certain potentiality or phonemic pattern of Fabienne Raphoz’s poem, 'Conus arenatus', Diaphonie traces the resonances of the re-embodied word in music and strains towards the possibility of meaning in its absence; “echoes of the first wave” — the silent origin and end become reverberating.

Performed at the Abbaye de Royaumont