two wonderful evenings at the aldeburgh festival – one at the pump house saw voice and electronics working with and against each other – in the audience was an enthusiastic Pierre-Laurent Aimard, artistic director of the festival so we knew we were in the right place http://composers-classical-music.com/d/DanajloskaEvdokija.htm - at one point the extraordinary vocal noises created by evdokija danajloska were manipulated by wilfried wending to such a way as to of created the impression of being snatched from her throat – just before she had sounded as if she was singing a tape loop of sounds backwards without a mic and accompanied a projection of a giant fly from the inside of her piano the second at the Hoffman building at snape by marco stroppa on electronics who was danajloska’s tutor and the phenomenal saxophonist, Claude Delangle – during the talk given by arshia cont before the performance he talked about the software created at ircan http://www.ircam.fr/ I thought about how some of the ideas explored within the world of musical thinking could be used to explore the visual arts. his ideas around collaboration – the car and flight control will be added to my seminar on collaboration that I have given to the students at nuca. meanwhile - there is some artwork dotted around the site as part of the festival – lookout for the end wall portrait and text in the auditorium – the rest.......................... http://www.aldeburgh.co.uk/events/snap-art-aldeburgh-festival
