Live Video Projects

Normal Transmission Will Resume Shortly
music by Benjamin Britten
Garage Theatre London
2003

team

conceived and created by Netia Jones and Pippa Nissen
musical director: Steve Higgins
singer (tenor): Hal Cazalet

description

‘Normal Programming Will Resume Shortly’ is a reworking of Sonnet 30 from Benjamin Britten’s ‘Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo’.

‘The three minute sonnet’ is exploded into a 12 minute musical exploration of the piece, followed by a performance of the sonnet as written.

The live voice and piano respond, echo and communicate with recorded voice and piano. Similarly the live performer has a relationship with the projected video image, the video monitors and the projected stills that make up the stage picture.

Aspects of the narrative within the sonnet, and the character of the protagonist piece together to allow a more resonant and detailed response to the sonnet when it finally emerges as a whole piece.

Live Video Projects

Netia Jones and Pippa Nissen set up Live Video Projects in early 2001 to explore in detail the relationship between projected video/other media and live classical music performance. Each Live Video Project workshop performance investigates a different aspect of this relationship, both artistically, and technically. The aim of Live Video Projects is to pursue a convincing and successful interaction between video and live classical music in performance, allowing the video and projected media to perform with the flexibility and spontaneity of a live performer.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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