Recordings
Solo version of the work from (s)kin: six (titled the realm of the body), 2017. Corey Mwamba – vibraphone
Performance at LUME Festival, London, 2017
Quintet version of the work, recorded live in London 2017. Richard Olatunde Baker – percussion; Liran Donin – bass; Robert Mitchell – piano; Rachel Mussson – saxophones; Corey Mwamba – vibraphone
Performances
- Bucharest, June 2017: part of “21st Century Jazz—from tradition to the avant-garde" Artist in Residence” series (solo)
- London, June 2017: headline at LUME Festival (quintet)
This piece asked improvisers to view my body in musical action as a dynamic score. From a video of a a performance in Leeds with my trio in 2013, I selected seven discrete physical states or poses that my body adopted while improvising. I drew line drawings of these poses, and utilised them in a schematic for improvisers (see figure below).
Schematic of poses for the quintet (view as PDF)
Each pose is assigned a guiding statement for the performer. There is a text score, which I play, but the other improvisers do not. When the performer observes pose from me that matches one in the schematic, they improvise using the their guiding statement until they register another movement; or they feel that musically they should move on, or improvise independently.