PLOT (2015-2017)

With voice, piano and electronics, this multimedia concert performance was developed in 2015 by Book and long-time collaborator Katharina Klement for Sexing Sound, a three day, city-wide symposium and festival in Chicago, October 22-24, 2015. Land, story, plan, scheme, area – the polyphony inherent in the semiotics of PLOT became the shifting ground for PLOT.v2, performed in the Austrian Alps at the international festival of jazz and improvised music, artactes in 2017.

Sexing Sound featured performances, installations, and panel discussions that examined the manifestations, contestations, and provocations of gender in contemporary music and sound art.

PLOT hand drawn score

Lynn Book and Katharina Klement performing PLOTv.2 at artactes, St. Johann-Tirol, March 2017

Sexing Sound was co-sponsored by: 

Goethe-Institut Chicago

Experimental Sound Studio

Sound Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts at University of Chicago

Northwestern University's Bienen School of Music

Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities and the Gender and Sexuality Studies Program

Lynn Book and Katharina Klement have collaborated on large scale performance media projects and duo concerts since 1999.  These include: the Dice Project, a series of recordings and online works by adventurous women composers; RE:garding Next, a converged media and concert project on utopian futures, performed at Roulette, NYC, Space in Pittsburgh and Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in the US; HOLE: in search of opera without Opera, for ArtStays, an international festival of contemporary art, Ptuj, Slovenia.  They also released, t(w)o wanderers, a CD of compositions for voice, piano, electronics and sound effects.  Some of their work together is included on a compilation, Lynn Book’s 2009 CD, voicing bodies.