Musical performance
Patterns Dance Work
Lismore Quad
Lismore Regional Art Gallery Plein Air Residency Program (Lismore, 20/10/2018)
20/10/2018
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Abstract
Patterns is part of a portfolio 'Exploring Comprovisation in Site Specific Dance Works'. The three musical works in this portfolio demonstrate innovative techniques and performance practice within the field of Sound Design for contemporary dance performance. Each work is composed/performed by musician/sound artist Barry Hill and accompanies three site specific dance works by VK Dance Collective and Roundabout Theatre Company at significant regional art festivals.
Patterns is a sound design for a site specific dancework that features the debut live performance of a music composition for tuned percussion and electronics influenced by minimalist composer Steve Reich.
Patterns was commissioned in 2018 and received funding from the Lismore Regional Art Gallery Quad Plein Air Arts Residency program. It was performed by VK Dance Collective.
Patterns is the working title of a new site-specific dance work by VK Collective - Vivian Frehner and Kimberley McIntyre, in collaboration with dancers Phil Blackman and Colleen Coy. The performance has been devised for and inspired by ‘The Quad’ public community art space in Lismore CBD.
The concept of the work is four dancers, moving and responding to each other supported by four musicians performing a new musical work composed by Australian musician Barry Hill.
Patterns is influenced by the work of Belgian choreographer Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker and hybridised improvised movement concepts including “walking scores” that engage with De Keersmaeker’s thematic aim: to “intensify the relation between dance and music”. Patterns investigates abstract play and responses within a non-linear narrative. Framed by the space as a spatialised image, it is a return to pure movement.
The music accompanying the work is a composition entitled “Iti Wan Seju” and is music for tuned mallet percussion and electronics. It is performed by students and alumni of the Southern Cross Contemporary Music Program. As a compositional work it is informed by the musical ideas of composers Brian Eno and Steve Reich and Electro minimalists Autechre. The sounds are inspired by imagery of a strange future Anthropocene/urban space.
The music is formed from two short number sequences that add up to 16; the first sequence 727. The second sequence 33433.
These number sequences are reordered doubled, redivided, mirrored, retrograded to form cells of longer sequences e.g. 727 772 277 772 277 772 16261, 33433 34333 43333
These sequences are used to create two intertwining, diatonic, repetitive and slightly confusing melodic voicings; a sonification of repeating code reflecting our contemporary human identity as increasingly repetitive and formulaic; defined only by unintelligible number sequences existing in the digital binary virtual space.
This performance of Patterns has been funded by the “Plein Air” artist residency program; fostering the development of art works that explore themes relating to the cultural activation of public space, It is part of a series of new works curated and directed by the Lismore Regional Art Gallery and sponsored by Southern Cross University and the Northern Rivers Conservatorium.
Details
- Title
- Patterns Dance Work
- Creators
- Barry Hill (Music/Band) - Southern Cross University, Creative Arts
- Contributors
- VK Dance Collective (Dancer)Barry Hill (Composer) - Southern Cross University, Creative Arts
- Event
- Lismore Regional Art Gallery Plein Air Residency Program (Lismore, 20/10/2018)
- Publisher
- Lismore Quad
- Grant note
- Lismore Regional Art Gallery Quad Plein Air Arts Residency program
- Identifiers
- 991013148713502368
- Academic Unit
- Creative Arts; Faculty of Business, Law and Arts
- Resource Type
- Musical performance