the strongest event of the day was the fact that I was interrogated and tortured by Daisy and Mat. As a witness, I played the role of mute, and so had to hand write my answers to their questions, but they continued to
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we performed with the modular sound sculpture. my focus was on the environment and changing my movements and gestures to create sounds that were responsive to the other sounds that were in the space. I was actively listening to everyone and trying to
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I am working on a PhD at Texas Woman’s University exploring improvisation and site-sensitive performance. Based in Newcastle, and sometimes working in the US, I am an improvisational performer working through movement, locations and sounds. I enjoy working collaboratively with other artists and I
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hands are points of contact making sounds take these sounding gestures into the space and return through the body, which changes, known in resonant tones and times arrive in a different place, another gesture instruments between us, held together by our weight vibrations coming inside,
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