CTH presentation at Sphinx Agency

Here some links to audio recordings made during our presentation of the Cairo Talking Heads project on thursday 29. march at the Sphinx Agency in Cairo.
These are live readings in Arabic by Hoda Hussein and Ashraf Ibrahim.
Thanks to everyone who came to that evening !
THALAAT HARB (include one text by teeth & tongue, translation by Dina Kabil and excerpts from a post by activist blogger Sandmonkey)
CHLOREE (Zara) by Teeth, translation by Hoda Hussein
SHAABI WEDDING by Teeth, translation by Hoda Hussein
Enjoy and keep posted for some pictures from the performance and more informations about that evening.

Whose dream?

A Dream : knowing a foreign language without understanding it : to perceive the Difference in it, without this Difference being ever caught up and flattened by the superficial sociality of language, by communication or habit… to learn the systematic of unseizability ; to resolve our reality under the influence of another organisation, another syntax ; to discover unheard positions of the subject in its expression… in other words to descend in the untranslatable and feel its vibration… until the whole Occident inside us starts to waver and together with it the right of the father tongue, this language that we inherited from our fathers and which makes us again the fathers and owners of a culture, which History metamorphoses into nature.

This was Roland Barthes' fantasma of giving the Others a place, as he was encountering Japan.

Another Roland, tells you an epic song of the 11th century, explodes his brain while blowing in his horn as he encountered the Others he would only fear.

Now you have teeth and tongue. What the hell can they do? They would let the Others blow through them, as a first step. A new epos ?

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A DREAM: KNOWING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING IT

teeth & tongue will be in Cairo very soon.

this blog will document their encounters in the cairosphere.

teeth & tongue don't speak arabic at all, they are too lazy.

however they would like to be other people's voice.

record yourself saying anything in arabic you want to hear from us.

use the recorder on the right, but don't tell us what it means.

teeth & tongue will repeat your speech as identic as possible and put it back on this blog, following the talking heads principle.

teeth & tongue, as a membrane of you, thank you.

some of the posts contain large audiofiles, so be patient if you have a slow connection.

use headphones and the Mozilla Firefox internet browser for best results.

find your way and make your own sound mix