pursuance
my contribution to the production was the 60 minute video to which the musicians improvised the score. the video features poems by laura and painting responses by walt. the centre section of the video content is an edit i created in response to the walt by walt sent to me to work with.
year: 2022
Marsden Jazz Festival, St Bartholomew's Church, 08/10/22
Walt Shaw- artwork, percussion, electronics, voice
Laura Cole- poetry, piano, voice
Lara Jones- saxophone, electronics, voice
Faye MacCalman- clarinet, saxophone, electronics, voice
Andrew Martyn Sugars- projections
** due to circumstances out of our control, Charlotte Keefe - trumpet, voice deputises for Lara Jones**
The ‘Pursuance’ project has run over two years, with artist/percussionist Walt Shaw creating paintings inspired by pianist/composer Laura Cole’s poetry, with Laura then reciprocating by writing in response to new paintings created by Walt.
It was a natural development to layer the project further with piano and percussion, and to invite multi-instrumentalists/composers Faye MacCalman and Lara Jones to the project, to realise a multi-disciplinary integration in a live setting.
In conjunction, artist Andrew Martyn Sugars has also created a visual projection of the paintings and texts, as an integral part of this performance.
(text from the accompanying booklet at the performance)
the performance also took place at lancaster jazz festival in 2023.
