THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF PERPETUAL MOTION - WE'RE STILL HERE
2015
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performed at:
“Zealous X” Festival Richmix, London January 2015 Performers: piano 1 – Mahsa Salali piano 2 – Lewis Wolstanholme piano 3 – Mimi Jasson piano 4 – Francis Devine fixed media sound piece video projection (7’30’’) A systematic introduction of pitches is created in order to be passed from the first to the last pianist. As the piece goes by the system gets stuck in itself before completely collapsing. Both extended techniques and fragments of improvisation appear along with the voices from interviews made with the performers, accompanied by a dream-state video of themselves. 1 “living in general… having to eat, having to shit, clean yourself… it’s just time consuming” 1 2 “if you don’t think about being alive then you’re just kind of there… you’re kind of autonomous in a mechanical way” 1 2 3 “if you have nothing to do then you end up doing nothing… so freedom is just…” 1 2 3 4 “I think it’s only from doing it that you question why you’re doing it… what was the beginning of the question? I can’t remember…” 1 1 2 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 |
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