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Introduction/ Programme notes
Further information - A Sentimental Journey webpage
Although this composition will be performed live to an audience the ‘opera’ does not take place in the theatre, but rather within the minds of remote audience members who are “listening in” to the live stream of the performance whilst “being there” at a place of journeying. By that I mean, that the audience will be situated in, say, a hotel lobby, a airport departure lounge, or a coffee shop in the centre of a tourist district, experiencing the opera through headphones and the physical presence of watching others journey. As such, their opera will be cast by the people that they are watching, and the set-design will be the place they are immersed, with the lights and the ambient soundscape contributing to their experience.
The music for this opera is realised through improvisation and each musician has a responsibility to a narrative exposition – however abstract this may be. They will approach the performance embracing any of the definitions for the word play (noun or verb), and embody the central premise of Sterne’s book. To this end they are given the following instruction:
This piece should be rollicking good fun!
It should ooze a philosophy of pleasure.
The music can digresses through the folds and creases of an individual’s mind into a world where anything might happen.
It can meander from the macro to the micro, from the outer to the inner. It has no universal scale of values.
It is a reflection on the emotions of the heart,
and of pleasure, fun
and wholehearted joy.
“Vive l’amour! Et vive la bagatelle!”
Each musician– performing or listening - must pirouette about its world, peeping and peering, enjoying a flirtation here, bestowing a few coppers there, and sitting in whatever little patch of sunshine one can find.
This performance will feature:
Audrey Riley - ‘cello and voice
John Richards - bass, electronics and voice
Jonathan Eato - soprano sax and voice
Craig Vear - percussion, KYMA and voice
Michael Lambourne - Yorick, solo voice and percussion
Thanks to Damian Cruden, Jonathan Eato, Aine Sheil, Peter Boardman and Patrick Wildgust.
Further thanks to Matthew Paradis for his expert help in setting up a reliable streaming system - http://www.matthewparadis.net/
Dedicated to Patrick Wildgust.
