Speak before you think was written in response to Louis d'Heudieres series of compositions entitled 'Laughter Studies'. Taking the imitative and descriptive mechanisms explored in d'Heudieres' works as a starting point, Speak before you think invites audience members to describe a generic deluge of images they see projected on a screen; respond to text prompts and mimic physical gestures. The audience responses act as a real-time audioscore for the 2 on-stage performers (transmitted via headphones with exponential levels of live-processing and manipulation). The duo, with the help of video instructions, guide the audience through a series of exercises, imitating, congratulating, encouraging, heckling, and visually mirroring them as they go. 

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Produced with support from William Demant Fonden, C.A.C Fonden, Frederiksberg Kommune, Knud Højgaards Fond and Dansk Komponist Forening's NYE VEJE scholarship .