Instead of drowning the cats

The day after the performance at Tate Britain, I went to the studio to play the piano and recorded three sequences of improvisation.
Later, I overlaid them like three different voices confronting each other, creating dissonances, confusion and processed them to reach a certain point of distortion.
piano, synthesis, research RBLKL



listen to "Instead of drowning the cats"

Once upon a time in the west, in October...

One saturday night, beginning of October, Mayola Manor, Clapton, London, a night of performances, I'm with you curated and hosted by Johanna Lindsey and Christa Holka.

In the garden, the same speaker cables that were used previously in the forest, for some obscure recordings, were installed and hung to the branches of the bushes. I tried to write the words "instead of killing me..." using cable-ties for speaker-cable letters.

Then, I tried to hide a pair of speakers in the bushes, at the entrance of the garden.

In a boite camouflee, connected through the speaker-cable letters, an audio system playing the piano piece "instead of killing myself", creating a specific atmosphere, some kind of pre-contextualisation, un avant-gout of the performances.

after the summer

Instead of..., is the pursuit of happiness into piano improvisations arranged with other "environments sonores conflictuels" (series of recordings for research on the exploration of melancolie expressed through sound or acoutisc landscapes.

chapter 1,"instead of killing myself"

recordings from the "piano a la maison, recherche BFCL" (aout 2009) and from different installations of speaker cables in Epping Forest (september 2009),

listening on www.myspace.com/barbaralenvers