Labour
2013 | solo percussionist and live electronics
Commissioned by Krystina Marcoux (CA).
Labour investigates and explores relationships between static elements of found objects and the organic expressive world. These complex relationships are illustrated through timbral and rhythmic means, controlled and pondered by a single percussionist. “Labour” achieves this presentation of multiple perspectives through the unique combination of acoustic performance, timbral processing and interactive control of multiple acoustic environments. The structures and rhythms that make the general form of the piece are derived from the Euclidian Algorithm. The fixed patterns also frequently become distorted and ”tilted” along the way. Certain ”intersectional cues,” for example, have the role of triggering accelerations and/ or ritardandos (at different rhythmic levels) which break the otherwise static patterns to make new unpredictable rhythmic combinations.
Selected performances: Tanna Schulich Hall (Montréal, CA), Bradyworks Chapelle Historique du Bon-Pasteur (Montréal, CA).