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Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2004 2:29 pm Post subject:
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Calendar Event: October 20, 2004 - October 21, 2004 SENSUOUS GEOGRAPHIES, the responsive, immersive audio-visual
installation created by Sarah Rubidge and Alistair MacDonald for The
NewTerritories Festival in 2003, will be open to the public at
The Performance Gym
King Alfred's Campus,
University College WInchester,
Sparkford Road,
Winchester
on
Wednesday 20th October and Thursday 21st October 2004
between 5.30pm and 9pm
Entry is free - but booking is necessary. To book please contact
Sharon Armstrong-Williams on 01962 827092 or email
Sharon.armstrong@winchester.ac.uk
SENSUOUS GEOGRAPHIES is a space of ritual, a liminal space intended
primarily as a space for interaction, for contemplation, even for
play.
Members of the public can watch or don richly coloured costumes and
enter the central interactive space. Here their movement generates a
continually evolving world of sound, image, light and colour which
draws attention to the intricacies of the sound environments they are
creating and the inter-weaving pathways of sensation in the body as
they respond to the sound. Surrounded by ghostly figures, projected
onto luminescent hanging screens, the installation comprises an almost
infinite collection of sound worlds, created as the visitors move in
and out of the installation, generating both individual musical layers
and the overall texture of the sound environment.
see www.sensuousgeographies.co.uk and www.sensedigital.co.uk for
details of the installation
What the press have said.
".. nine performers (including audience members) dressed in muslin
blindfolds and coloured garments that look like a cross between
medieval gowns and burkas. .... generate intriguing, disquieting and
humorous sounds as they respond to the [installation]. Watching, you
feel like an uninitiated participant in an intricate mythological
role-playing game. But the piece is so inventive and original that you
surrender easily to its infinite possibilities."
Mark Brown (The Guardian)
"...what emerges is a personal/group signature tune that constantly
shifts and cannot be repeated. On one level it is happy play, on
another it taps into notions of wordless communication and issues of
identity." Mary Brennan The Herald.
"...this is an event where the audience become the show, donning
jewel-coloured cloaks and hats and milling about in a marked-off inner
circle where the various colours trigger off a range of sounds and
images ... Once you get past the fear over entering the inner circle
(especially when you are handed a 'green novice cloak') this is a
funfair ride that dispenses with all the usual rules of theatre "
Ellie Carr The Sunday Herald.
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Dr Alistair MacDonald
Director, Electroacoustic Music Studios
Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama
100 Renfrew Street, Glasgow, G2 3DB
- - - - tel 0141 270 8302 - - - fax 0141 270 8352
- - - alistair@rsamd.ac.uk
www.rsamd.ac.uk
www.alistairmacdonald.co.uk
www.sensuousgeographies.co.uk _________________ A Charity Pantomime in aid of Paranoid Schizophrenics descended into chaos yesterday when someone shouted, "He's behind you!"
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