Hopkins-Jackson-Smith & Frith-Sanchez

Hopkins–Jackson–Smith

Lindsay Hopkins – movement

Keefe Jackson – Saxophone, Clarinet, objects

Wilson Tanner Smith – Cello, objects
 

The trio of Lindsay Hopkins (movement), Wilson Tanner Smith (cello, objects), and Keefe Jackson (saxophone, clarinet, objects) has been working with the process of myth-making for at least three years in Chicago. During a residency this summer in Ticino, the new pieces they are working on allow composition and performance structure to evolve from instinct, and exploring energetic pathways between body and sound.

What happens when we listen from our etheric nervous system? How does sound change the body? How does the body change sound? From this place of exploration we want to build an atmosphere and visual world within which our movement and sound lives, and give audiences support to come into etheric and energetically tangible contact with performance.

 

Frith-Sanchez

Fred Frith – Electric guitar, objects, pedals

Paula Sanchez – Cello, pedals

What are we doing?
Is it a conversation? If so, what are we talking about?
Or a confrontation? Here I am, what are you going to do about it? 
Or a co-frontation – here we are together, looking for the way in. Or the way through. Or the way out ...
Maybe it’s a way of listening to the world, learning to hear better.. Or of understanding each other better by a process of listening.
Proposing, responding, reacting, ignoring, hoping, challenging.
a delirious magic, laughing out loud unexpected oppositions and synchronicities sudden calm
bewitching certainty.
why is your music so ugly someone said once and I still don’t know what to reply
I guess ugly is OK as long as it’s alive!