HERE.HERE : VENTRILOQUY OF SPACE

Our relationship to space is not just visual, but also auditory. In this concert, the correlation between an environmental space and the sounds and music that resonate it our challenged. Michael J McEvoy questions the translation of visual image to sound through interpretation. His music is a response to videos, and his scores invite classically trained musicians to expand their zone of influence, from the traditional minutia of interpretation in classical music to a wide-open form. Cello, Guitar and Piano. Akira Sileas and Harry Whalley’s work Plangency for Cello and Live electronics uses the reverberant space of Salisbury Cathedral. The cello activates different resonances that are amplified and manipulated, surrounding the audience in a way that exaggerates the resonances and materials of the cathedral. Sea of Cables uses field recordings as a basis for electronic improvisation. In this context the environmental sound is transferred into a texture, which is built upon by the ensemble.

Programme

Michael J McEvoy
Akira Sileas and Harry Whalley
Played in Surround Sea of Cables

Here.here concert series

The here.here concert series, is a collaboration between bookRoom and the Audio Research Cluster at UCA Farnham, curated by Emmanuelle Waeckerlé and Harry Whalley, around their common research in extended, textual, visual, gestural and object scores and ways to integrate or experience technology in text/ music/ film/ performances.

The project is supported by UCA research fund.