Postcard: Site-Specific Music at Dartington
Prior, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8750-445X
(2018)
Postcard: Site-Specific Music at Dartington.
Theatre, Dance and Performance Training, 9 (3).
p. 398.
ISSN 1944-3927
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Abstract / Summary
As the location of a number of pioneering investigations into the expanded field of performance and exhibition, Dartington College of Arts had a long tradition of using the estate as a point of departure for student work across the disciplines taught there. Music was no exception, with the ‘Sites Project’ a regular fixture of the Spring term for 1st year students.
Yas Clarke’s Snare Drums in a Field (2008) is one wonderful example among many others from the project. Inspired by a visit from Alvin Lucier the previous year, the piece was conceived for a path that ran through a field on the estate. Conducted by the artist using brightly coloured flags, four drummers played a simple rhythm in unison, with the audience located next to the conductor at one end of the path. The piece was a poetic translation of distance into time, as simultaneously played beats became rhythms based on the time it took for the sound of each drummer to reach the audience.
Item Type: | Article |
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ISSN: | 1944-3927 |
Subjects: | Education Music Music > Sound Art |
Courses by Department: | Academy of Music & Theatre Arts > Music |
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Depositing User: | David Prior |
Date Deposited: | 28 Oct 2018 21:10 |
Last Modified: | 23 Nov 2023 14:01 |
URI: | https://repository.falmouth.ac.uk/id/eprint/3033 |
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