Modus Dysfoni at open studio in Cite International de Paris 22.4 kl. 19.15

Modus Dysfoni is a vocal performance with kantele, that unfolds as an embodied exploration of voice, memory, and neurological disruption by Gro Siri Ognøy

“Life is sound. Sound is life. My life’s sound is a vocal sound, a Modus Dysfoni “

 

The work takes place in Paris, an environment connected to my medieval studies and practice which started nearly 30 years ago. The past and present coexist: the remembered voice and the voice of today. Fragments of sound, memory, and physical presence intersect, forming a shifting acoustic landscape.

 

At the center of my performance is the voice as both instrument and site of instability. The piece draws from my lived experience with spasmodic dysphonia, a form that affects vocal control. Here, the voice resists intention. Sounds fracture, interrupt, or transform unexpectedly, revealing a tension between will and involuntary action. The work exposes the fragile boundary between being in control and loss of control, where intention is continuously negotiated with the body's own impulses. What emerges is a sonic experience shaped by vulnerability, uncertainty, and presence.

 

Modus Dysfoni is structured around a spiral-staircase. This column becomes a metaphor for the body: a resonating axis from which sound emerges and around which experience circulates. 

 

In Modus Dysfoni, the voice is not only sound but condition.

A way of doing—disrupted. A system—misfiring