"Eyrnasía"

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As the opening piece of Embody, Mind, Voice, “Eyrnasía”reflects on Daniela's experience of losing her voice and the silence that accompanies the absence of one’s most accessible soundmaker. Audience members are each given ear plugs and are non-verbally guided to insert them, performing activation and inward listening exercises with their bodies. Dramaturgically, “Eyrnasía” sets apart the concert space from the noise of daily life, challenging the conventional one-way flow of sound from stage to audience. By asking the audience to vocalize through straws while wearing ear plugs, the piece distorts the way they hear their own voices resonate through their bones, subduing their natural vocal resonators and outward listening. In this shared yet isolated experience, each person is surrounded by others but hears only their own vocal cords. As an embodied listening sound art piece, “Eyrnasía” introduces the concert’s primary method—embodied practice—inviting the audience to become both the source and receiver of sound as they access internal soundscapes like breaths, heartbeats, and footsteps. The piece culminates with the removal of the ear plugs, allowing the audience to hear conventionally as a disembodied voice emerges, reciting the line “all voice is breath,” which transitions into the second piece. Here, the artist’s body moves, her voice remains silent, and her recorded thoughts run independently, detached from her physical presence.​