Tomorrow I’m performing with Jennifer Walshe at the SPOR festival in Århus, in a piece that we devised together on the initiative of the curators, Anne Marqvardsen and Anna Berit Asp Christensen. We found a couple of days to meet in Berlin, having never met before, and started off by improvising in iTunes with each our own soundbank of field recordings.

chinese new year celebrations in New York, silk market tradersin Beijing, a church service spilling out onto the plaza outside…

With the basic play/rewind buttons on iTunes, you can rock back and forth in a track just like your first teenage experiments with a tape-cassette. Our improvisations went in a lot of different directions after that, with voice, objects, text and movement. As we separated in Berlin, we agreed to hammer out a 10-minute soundtrack for our performance based on the field recordings that we’d used – we did that by e-mail, sending files to each other, and using those sounds as a timecode for talking about what we will each do live in the performance.
The result can be heard at the concert Here we are now, Ridehuset, Århus, 12th April, 7.30pm.

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