Subject: Re: program notes
From: Alastair Bannerman (alastairjohn@gongmelt.com)
Date: Wed Mar 20 2002 - 19:17:43 EST
> >
> > As a musician who is trying to work with dancers I
> > find it intensely frustrating - most of them don't
> > understand how to relate to music then blame it on
> the
> > accompanist! Also, they won't work with anything
> > without a pulse, so that leaves a lot of EA
> out....
>
> yes, thats annoying... or they seem to have their
> own sense of pulse... one movement may count as
> three or four
It's an interesting experience though; often the way a
movement is rhythmically subdivided depends on the
dynamic of that movement - for example swinging
movements divided in three; sharper, or more static,
movements into two or four counts. And the mimetic
relationship of the accompaniment to the dance has an
obvious parallel to the way that we think of certain
sounds as 'gestures'.
>
> dancers who have performed Cunningham's pieces tend
> to be more open to
> using EA that doesnt feature beats... but it depends
> on the individuals...
>
>
yes, I think that artists from some backgrounds, like
Cunningham, are able to take sound-gestures as a map
for their own movement without the support of a rigid
metrical structure, and of course some superimpose
their own - apparently unrelated - 'text' onto
anything.
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