The Poets’ Sounds – Creating and Presenting New Works of Speech-Music Literature emerges from the boundary between literature and New Music – an aesthetic realm which has hardly been explored until now. In cooperation with the Cologne-based speech art trio sprechbohrer the Lettrétage literary center commissioned six international authors to explore this intersection. During the project, each author will compose one speech-music piece for three voices, which will be musically interpreted and performed by the sprechbohrer ensemble. This artistic work is supported by three production workshops in which the authors and musicians explore their respective approaches and impulses, the potential of the voice as an instrument, the tonal spectrum of speech, and questions of notation. The newly created pieces, performed by the sprechbohrer ensemble, will premiere at a concert in Berlin, before being presented to audiences at literary festivals within Germany and abroad. 
(c) Natalia Reich
AC/E supports the participation of Eduard Escoffet with the following programme:
>11 June 2022: Premiere en el Collegium Hungaricum, Berlin (DE)
Livestream available here >
> 12 June 2022: Loft, Köln (DE)
Livestream available here >
> 24 August 2022: POETRY MOON-Literature Festival, Helsinki (FI)
Interview with Eduard Escoffet > for Poet's Sound
