Verbo

for voice and megaphone (2019)

para voz y megáfono (2019)

Verbo is a short but powerful piece for voice and megaphone. In this work, the megaphone is not used to amplify the voice for a larger audience; instead, it is pointed back at the speaker, creating an acoustic space where the performer becomes both the source and the receiver of sound. True to its name, Verbo is intrinsically tied to action—it aspires to be action itself. Rather than indicating, signifying, or representing an external act, the piece embodies a direct action: a verb that resists meaning, existing instead as pure noise. Because it requires a body to be voiced, Verbo is also a body. It is a speech without words, a sound-body that merges voice and presence into a singular, visceral experience.

> Score

> Audio

Studio recording. Performed by Samuel Cedillo

> Videos

ScoreFollower video.

Performed by Samuel Cedillo

Performed by Pablo Coello

Performed by Pascal Zurek

> List of known performances

• 29/09/2022 LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore. Performed by Bertram Wee.
• 28/04/2022 Contemporary Performing Arts Research Residency, Singapore. Performed by Bertram Wee.
• 10/09/2021 The Arts House, Singapore. Performed by Bertram Wee.
• 17/09/2020 Sala Mozart. Auditorio de Galicia. Santiago de Compostela. Performed by Pablo Coello.
• 22/11/2019 Vanalinna Muusikamaja. Tallinn, Estonia. Performed by Samuel Cedillo.
• 11/10/2019 Grand Salon de la Maison du Japon, CIUP. París. Performed by Samuel Cedillo.
• 27/09/2019 Sala Xochipilli, FaM, UNAM. Performed by Magali Palomar.
• 30/08/2019 CMMAS. Morelia. Performed by Eduardo Partida.
• 30/08/2019 Centro Cultural Hangar, Festival Interciclos. Querétaro. Performed by Samuel Cedillo.
• 17/08/2019 Artefacto. Aguascalientes. Performed by Samuel Cedillo.
• 14/08/2019 Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes. Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes. Performed by Samuel Cedillo.
• 04/04/2019 Bucareli 69. Ciudad de México. Performed by Samuel Cedillo.
• 20/02/2019 Reiterkaserne. Graz, Austria. Festival IMPULS. Performed by Pascal Zurek.

> Expositions

• 2020 Mirar o son: Notación gráfica na música contemporánea (Santiago de Compostela).