Here are some notes from the class.
- The performances are on 9 and 10 May.
- We can use and adapt material created in Cathy's class.
- Im going to the festival hall next monday and will take some photos of the spaces we can use
In our search for significant themes for this performance, which respond to Nono we had this suggestion
Rising water levels in Venice. The construction of the protective wall around it. This is symptomatic of several things -
the paradoxical attitude 'we can beat nature'
the resulting creation of a box or ghetto around Venice (it was beautiful and open, now it must be enclosed) - The wall between Palestine and Israel
Nono also being enclosed and erased by contemporary culture.
We can extract and ponder on these themes.
I felt that Nono was very good at leaving space for real concerns to emerge and be felt. The feeling of space in his work allows kinds of anger/violence to return to a human context. How we treat the issue of rising water levels can be related to this - what are the issues behind the rising water.
Vocal and other simple themes
I suggested that we might find ways of simplifying the material that we use - for example, using a shared set of vocal recordings. This means that when switching between the rhythmic and arrhythmic pulse we will have a cohesive sound.
Think tanking
We will need to meet to try things out. Its only by doing this that we can see what is working and develop the positive ideas collectively.
Collective action
Related (perhaps) to this. We can put a voting facility into the sound system, someone proposes a change and if all or a majority agree it happens. This could create the odd situation where one is waiting for the last person to agree, and the timing of the event becomes their choice. Improvisation can occur much faster than this of course, but the administrative/political process is something we can act on. (is it a communist or democratic or fascist structure)
Think tanking
Our future sessions should emulate the layout and circumstances of the final performance space.
Remote/Random data - arrhythmical
Our source of random time varying data could be environmental statistics about the water height in the Venice lagoon, or tables about the degree of wood root in the supporting structure
