Prime

Prime is an installation comprising a series of benches emanating looped recordings of deep, resonant voices murmuring and
moaning pre-lingual compositions. The texture of the voices is akin to a humming and originates from the African American church
practice of moaning. The sound is at once gesturing to a kind of exalting orgasm, a painful groan, or a comforting meditation. With these sound elements, Camille Norment composes a neutral experience that focuses on the physical properties of the sound. She is not interested in evoking any particular ‘feeling’ in the audience, rather this work speaks indirectly to a connectedness of dissonant sound, voice and body.