SCANNING SET

Curators

Augustine Carr

Artists

Claire Le Couteur

‘Scanning Set’ (2018), a special performance with voice and percussion by LUNATRAKTORS, featuring Carli Jefferson and Clair Le Couteur.

” ‘Scan’ first comes into English to describe analysing the rhythm or structure of verse by tapping the foot. Performance research duo LUNATRAKTORS work with an intuitive, collaborative form of scansion, re-awakening lost songs from the folk archive into embodiment. Working with harmonic singing and body percussion, voice and rhythm are used to scan the gallery space, picking out resonant frequencies and ringing tones. This singing practice is combined with LUNATRAKTORS’ wider project of self-transformation through scanning the archive of folk song for moments that resonate with their theoretical, personal and political concerns, scanning the written verse to ‘hear’ the music in it, and re-archiving that material into the body by ear and by heart. ” – LUNATRAKTORS (2018)