April 24, 2017
De Gekke Geit, The Hague
20:00

BARTALK comes early this Friday on Apr 24. Five speakers with backgrounds in radio, classical singing, poetry, art and photography will be speaking about code, language and abstraction.

Featuring:

NATASHA TAYLOR
Trash Talking and Wrestling Announcers: The use of language and the voice in pro wrestling

HANS POEL
Number Stations: occult code on shortwave radio

KATARINA PETROVIĆ
Metalanguage for the Metaprimitive: How to explain the world in 60 words

JOHN NIEKRASZ
Generative overlap in musico-linguistic spheres: Canary Island whistling, Hindustani spoken tabla bols and proxy speech via Ghanaian talking drums

DEAN BOWEN
The holiness of the mundane: poetry, language