Keen to explore Sonic Pixels’ potential as a tool for performance Jon Large & Lewis Sykes of Cornbrook Creative joined Anthony Donovan’s 100 Murmurists ‘Poor vs Poor’ event at St Peter’s Arts Centre, Preston on 9th June 2018, 5pm.
Jon fabricated steel stands and mounts for the 25 devices so they could be positioned and grouped around the venue – though with ~100 contributors it turned out that space was fairly limited.
Lewis developed an alternative control interface for the devices using a Novation Launchpad Mk2.
Rough, hand-held video documentation (a part of the script!) of Sonic Pixels’ first outing as a performance system for Anthony Donovan’s 100 Murmurists ‘Poor vs Poor’ at St Peter’s Arts Centre, Preston, 9th June 2018, 5pm.
“Murmurists will premiere Anthony Donovan’s ‘Poor vs Poor’; a one-hour continuous piece involving everything from spoken word, contemporary dance, Free Jazz and Black Metal, to comedy, film and theatrics – as much akin to the spite of Spitting Image as to that of Pinter, Laing and Artaud, as much about the aesthetics of protest as about the ideas of Xenakis, Cage and Brecht.”
More about the event here – http://improvisersnetworks.online/events-north-west-archive/item/311-murmurists-poor-vs-poor
More about Murmurists here – https://dranthonydonovan.wixsite.com/anthonydonovan/murmurists