Concert for Live Water, Voice, and Field Recordings.

In her live performance “Water’s States,” La Pesch explores the sounds of water as it changes from solid to liquid to gaseous. In three chapters, she combines live-generated ice, water, and steam sounds with high-quality field recordings and voice. She takes the audience from the ice block to the Arctic, to deep snow, to frozen lakes, to melting glaciers, until the ice block on stage begins to drip, develops into a raging river, and plunges into the ocean until a drop evaporates with a hiss on the hot stone. Geysers shoot water vapor into the air, steamers on the sea and boilers on stage honk and sing. In doing so, she deliberately blurs the boundaries between live-generated, visible sounds and long-gone, recorded sounds, as well as between so-called natural and human-made sounds. In this way, she also questions the human relationship to water in all its forms. The concert ends in a cup of tea, the water ends in the body of the artist.