[big gig update blog-post coming later, but this was bubbling in my head so needed writing first… 😉 ]
Right, this was inspired by a couple of brilliant thinker-friends. Partly it was this blog post by Corey Mwamba (an exceptional musician, thinker, doer and advocate for music) about The Family Album, and his audience-focussed rethink of jazz/improvised music programming, and partly by the work of a theatre company called Coney, particularly their co-director Annette Mees, whose thinking on pretty much everything has been of immense value to me over the last while… Their amazing work on new ways of experiencing theatre, of devising experiential work for audiences is truly remarkable (their upcoming show, Early Days (Of A Better Nation) is touring in the run-up to the election, and is unmissable)
Anyway, here’s today’s brain-ramble, on which I welcome your thoughts and input…
…disappearing down a wikipedia wormhole of synonyms for outmoded terminology that appears to have no analog in the useful terminology world, I stumbled on Cymatics – en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cymatics
And I’m now thinking about how it works as a metaphorical space for thinking about visible human/audience responses to music… Continue reading “Creating Spaces Where People Can Respond To Music…”
