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Sonorous Continuum: Movement and Sound
An evening of movement and sound...
dance and noise...
opera and electronics...
improvisation and compositions...
process and experimentation...
Join us at Sonorous Continuum: Movement and Sound to kick off <fidget>'s fourth annual Fall Experimental Music Festival!
Four distinct performative collaborations between musicians and composers and choreographers and dancers:
Antartica
> Mikronesia, Nora Gibson, and Clifford Greer
How to Listen
> Megan Bridge and Peter Price
Drums for Dance / Dance for Drums
> Loren Groenendaal and Flandrew Fleisenberg
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> Colleen Hooper and Drake Z. Tyler
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Antarctica is a forthcoming media opera by composer and electronic musician Mikronesia in collaboration with choreographer Nora Gibson and lighting designer Clifford Greer. Their collaborative adventure integrates sound, dance, film, code, story, lighting and music to tell the story of a modern society where the entire archives of human history are stored digitally and what could happen when that whole system crashes. For the Fidget Fall Experimental Music Festival the trio, with singer Steve Quaranta, will present a 15 minute preview of the opera. They are aiming to premiere the opera in 2015 in a planetarium format theater. More information can be found at http://www.mikronesia.com/Antarctica
How to Listen
<fidget> (Peter Price and Megan Bridge) will perform an improvisational set using source material based on processed ambient recordings from The Waldorf School of Philadelphia. How to Listen will grow into a choral work with electronic music, to be performed with students at the school in Spring 2014. This project is funded in part by a Community Partners grant from the American Composer's Forum, Philadelphia Chapter.
Drums for Dance / Dance for Drums
Frequent long-term collaborators, Loren Groenendaal (movement) and flandrew fleisenberg (percussion), present a study of their collaborative process as well as a real-time investigation of role and reversal.
Drums for Dance / Dance for Drums is simultaneously a work-in-progress and a finished work realized through a set composition with improvised segments.
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A piece about the symbolic forms that noise takes. Attempts to explore noise's role in art and situate it as a function of the mind (semblance vs. representation vs. interpretation). Literature as score, visa versa. Aims at clarity of projection, common experience: vague hints of rustling, muffled speech, soft creaking, clicking. Challenges narrative, structure, expression, providence. Catechresis: a metaphor for which no corresponding word exists. Examines detail, (hand)writing, linking lines of thought, disconnecting bodies, author-ity. Inquires into psychological process of art-making-- internal hermeneutic that yields art. Embodiment/ audition of the process of disinhibition. Three simultaneous interpretations: uttered, moved, sounded. Classified: poetry, monodrama, performativity, sound-mobile.
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1714 North Mascher St.
Philadelphia, PA 19122
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