Performing the Spaces

Performing the Spaces

Performing the Spaces

concert journey for three musician-performers

concert journey for three musician-performers

View through two large windows onto a green landscape, crossed by structural metal braces.

Year

2024

Duration

60 min

Category

Performative & Installations

Features

Electronics

Spatialised

Three musician-performers guide listeners through a site-responsive concert journey in which movement, architecture and shifting listening positions become part of the musical form.

Three musician-performers guide listeners through a site-responsive concert journey in which movement, architecture and shifting listening positions become part of the musical form.

Three musician-performers guide listeners through a site-responsive concert journey in which movement, architecture and shifting listening positions become part of the musical form.

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SEQUENCE 5 · OUTDOOR RESONANCE

Programme Note

Performing the Spaces is conceived as a mobile, site-responsive concert rather than a sequence of works presented from a fixed stage. Three musician-performers guide listeners through changing locations, distances and acoustic perspectives, making the movement of performers and audience part of the musical form.

Architecture acts not as a backdrop but as an active condition of listening. Resonance, visibility, proximity and direction continually alter the perception of instrumental gestures, while each new location establishes a different relationship between performer, listener and surrounding space. Sounds may be approached, crossed, reflected or encountered at a distance, allowing the same site to reveal multiple acoustic and perceptual states.

The work therefore moves between concert, performance and installation. Its form emerges through the journey itself: successive spaces retain traces of what has already been heard while continually reframing what follows, turning movement through the site into a changing experience of sound, memory and place.

Score

Score available on request from the composer.

Gallery

Musician performing beside a large circular reflective surface set against an old stone wall outdoors.
Musician performing beside a large circular reflective surface set against an old stone wall outdoors.

Outdoor resonant sequence · performer and circular surface

Three musicians performing with acoustic instruments and electronics inside a small white room overlooking trees.
Three musicians performing with acoustic instruments and electronics inside a small white room overlooking trees.

Three musician-performers · interior sequence

Reflective architectural surface framing and partially mirroring the surrounding wooded landscape.
Reflective architectural surface framing and partially mirroring the surrounding wooded landscape.

Reflective surface and landscape · site-responsive installation