Psychoanalytic theory will help us explore the relationship between voice and language, and voice and body. We will present history of music (up to the 20th century) as a history of a tension between voice and language, which, at its peak, breaks into a scream. In early 20th century art luxuriats with screams and whispers, which are also associated with psychoanalysis, born from hysteria. The latter is also a junction between voice, body and female position, which we understand as a position of gender difference manifested in music not as a special sound element or structure, but as the very matter of music – the voice. We are interested in the shift of tension between voice and word to the field of friction between voice and body (with corporeality inscribed in female position), which is reflected in the contemporary postopera and practice of Slovenian improviser Irena Tomažin Zagoričnik.
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