Preparations are well and truly underway for a week of technical runs at The Block, QUT from June 27. While I am up, I'm hoping to catch up with a few Queenslander friends too.
My long time friend Grant Johansen will be flying into Brisbane on Thursday for two days of music rehearsal for The Joy of Loss. I am excited to be working once again with Grant. He will bring a deliciously internalized process of improvisation and performance to the work (specifically for Gesture 6: the live musical performance).
On those same two days, Penny Mullen will be joining us in working through and considering Gesture 5: the live dance/movement component of the performance. I am really looking forward to the intensive sectionals on Thursday and Friday.
The remainder of the time will be working through the technical considerations of the eight-channel installation, the fire installation, the air and infrasonic installation, and the projection of the silent interviews. The iPad orchestra continues its own seperate development, not helped in anyway by the postponement of the iPad intensive due to the ash cloud that has stopped air traffic into and out of Tasmania for the last little while. My colleague Rick McCullock is the chief developer of the iPad Orchestra application for The Joy of Loss, and his ideas are really pushing the limits! Nice one Rick!
Photo and video documentation of the tech week will appear on the blog during the week.
'Gesture 7.2a' from 'The Joy of Loss'
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