Allowing passage through (TRANSITVS)
A sonic poem in 6 acts
by A Frei & Izidora L. LETHE

Some of the transistions you will notice,
some of the transistions you won't.

In this Listening Performance, the two artists develop their first collaborative work titled (TRANSITVS), which translates from latin into «Allowing Passage Through». Different forms of «transitions» will be touched upon in various ways such as the reaching across times and works that have been separated, or the mutable transience of the notion of gender (or: genre).
(TRANSITVS) invites to open toward slow change – and at times even unnoticed or unnoticeable change – while leading listeners through a sound poem in six acts thematically interweaving works by queer composers and performative and acoustic elements. Influenced by a composition by Annea Lockwood and the traditional yugoslavian ganga singing, the whole composition (played by 2 record players, singing and ceramic bowls with hydrophones), is tuned on the Note E and plays with slight halftone shifts and transitions. 
Temporal overlaps in sound, language and movement will pass the audience through entwining one’s own body experience and tectonic plate shifts, or the notion of the brains’ «elastic» time-preception – which expands, contracts and permeates like a soundwave – while sharing present-time. Listening, thereby, is meant to move beyond sole receptability and be an act of relational attunement.

«Decreation is an undoing of the creature in us – the creature enclosed in self and defined by self. But to undo self one must move through self, to the very inside of its definition.» Anne Carson

«Submitting to an identity also means consenting to be troubled by your failures in relation to it.» Hannah Black

«What is heard is changed by listening and changes the listener.»  Pauline Oliveros