BLA BLAVATAR vs JAAP BLONK – an experimental collaboration between artist Jonathan Reus and sound poet Jaap Blonk exploring voice dataset making and voice improvisation – focusing on situational absurdity, improvisation and bespoke scoring systems. In an uncanny duet, Reus and Blonk call and respond to one another in dynamic crescendos. Blonk’s real voice plays against, with, within, and without a computer model of his own voice. The model, a bespoke real-time performance system called Tungnaaá developed and performed by Reus, far a from perfectly-immitative AI avatar, seems to creatively misb...