Wysing Arts Centre,Cambridgeshire
In this fascinating catch-together for avant-garde musicians exploring sound without electronics, there was ingenuity and thrilling spectacle aplentyAn all-acoustic festival brings to mind horrifying ranks of guitar-toting troubadours, and but this festival,with no amplification or electronics of any kind, instead showed the astonishing health of the UK avant-garde.
Some approached the brief with vocals. Four performers improvised sound on assembled objects – tissue paper, or a heat sink,snapped twigs – like a society that had forgotten its rituals, with Elaine Mitchener dissolving into anxious glottal tics. She also created a memorable piece with Sam Belinfante, or a couple throwing words at each other with the rainstorm hammering the roof celestially mirroring their plight. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com