A sneak preview...

Listen to a short excerpt from our rehearsal on Soundcloud at:

https://soundcloud.com/creativefutures/rehearsal-150907 

More to follow...

Rehearsal 7th September 2015

Photo of the ensemble rehearsing.

Photo of Viyki drawing.
She is wearing a blindfold and has a pencil in each hand.

Photo of the score for 'Shore Line'.
It shows a piece of spiral wire.
Vibraphone line.

Photo of the score for 'Shore Line'.
The score shows a piece of fishing line knotted with beads.
Oboe melody.

Photo of the score for 'Shore Line'.
The section of score has feathers tied to a piece of fishing line.

Photo of the score for 'Shore Line'.
Beads are glued on cardboard. Theorbo solo.

The first scores

The first photo shows a tactile score on paper using gems, sequins and feathers.  This score is about mapping a harmonic field through melodic fragments.

The second photo shows a score that uses string and feathers and is about creating drones and punctuations.

Jackie's practice diary - day 2

The first photo is of 3 paintings with thick acrylic on paper.  The first painting explores points on a harmonic field, the second rhythmic signals cuing change in the music, and the third explores an accompaniment and punctuation figure for what will probably become a duet improvisation.

First photo showing 3 paintings

The second photo shows paper spirals - one looks like a spiral, and feels like one, but the second spiral can only be felt by reading folds in the paper if you run it between your finger and thumb top to bottom.

Second photo of paper spirals

Jackie's practice diary - day 1

Jackie has been keeping a diary of her solo practice ahead of our first group rehearsal this week:  

"I drew the vibraphone as I felt it, so with a blindfold on, it becomes a series of blocks (the notes), and not the resonators underneath them or the frame they stand on.  What was curious was that it no longer seemed like a series of blocks arranged side by side in a straight row - the black notes seemed to curve away from me in the top octave.  Some notes seemed rectangular, which they are, but some seemed to warp so half the bar had vanished into some unknown place in the universe.  That left a sliver of metal which eluded my beaters ...."

The photo shows Jackie's diary with her drawings of how she perceived the vibraphone (described in the post above).