Passing Place Concert

James Clapperton; Piano, David Dalmazzo; Video, Sven Erga; Electronics

The concert was presented in Banchory, Scotland at SOUND Festival 22 October 2010.

Sven, James and David at Roscobie House, Banchory

James, Sven, David and Jana´s collaboration came about through the work with the project Passing Place, a theatre performance by Mobile Homes, directed by Zoe Christiansen, where they created the sounds, music and technology for the performances. James has specially composed piano pieces for this project,which hge performs, Jana has made recordings in various locations in the North Sea, Barents sea, the Norwegian coast and from a research trip for the project to Greenland, Sven works with electronic and archived historical sounds, and David works with custom-made videoprocessing software, using the original footage from Roald Amundsens expeditions 1903-1906

They are combining piano, Videographics, electronics and field recording in a live setting as a concert, interacting with each other, the space and place they are playing in and the relation to the project the collaboration sprung out of. This time, the concert was presented in Banchory, Scotland at the SOUND festival. Jaba was not there physically, but she did contribute a very nice mix of underwater phenomena. A fine evening it was. And we very much like to thank Chalmers and Morag Clapperton for their hospitality.

 

Interspersed with and performed alongside Sven and Jana's soundscapes are a series of piano pieces by James Clapperton. These include short works depicting the purity of the arctic landscape based on the musical harmonic series. There are also sections based on Norsk folketoner entitled "Draumkvedet". These are contrasted by more turbulent music which accompanies Amundsen's moments of inner confusion and doubt.

 

 

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