A Movement-Sound Performance

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The words: “You ain’t heard nothing yet”, spoken by Al Jolson in the The Jazz Singer, were the first ever spoken on screen. YAHNY (You Ain’t Heard Nothing Yet) is a movement-sound piece celebrating the acoustic body.

Borrowing from cinematic production techniques, this piece uses sound, text, movement, and foley art to examine how our senses structure our experience; how sounds and images come to be associated in our minds and how the senses affect one another in different situations. The work seeks potentials in different ways of coming to know these familiar modes of narrative production, re-contextualised in live performance.

Cinema works through the combination and juxtaposition of sight and sound, creating a sensorium in which these two discreet senses affect each other to the point where  we do not ‘see’ or ‘hear’ a film, but come to ‘hear-see’ it.YAHNY dissects and interrogates this process of synthesis and manipulation, seeking  a new engagement with sensory perception.