Existence Éphémère
Description
“We can, if we so choose, wander aimlessly over the continent of the arbitrary. Rootless as some winged seed blown about on a serendipitous spring breeze. Nonetheless, we can in the same breath deny that there is any such thing as coincidence. What’s done is done, what’s yet to be is clearly yet to be. In other words, sandwiched as we are between the “everything” that is behind us and the “zero” beyond us, ours is an ephemeral existence in which there is neither coincidence nor possibility.” ― Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase
Keywords
art, performance, sound, experimental, music, Decibel, scale variable
Output Type
Performance
Publication Title
Scale Variable 2015
Publisher
Tura New Music & Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts
School
Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA)
RAS ID
20685
Additional Information
Existence Éphémère was composed by Stuart James and performed as part of Anime, Concert 3 of the Scale Variable 2015 series, at Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts on 5 September 2015.
DECIBEL ENSEMBLE
Cat Hope: Artistic Director, flute, bass, electronics
Lindsay Vickery: reeds, composition, score design, electronics
Stuart James: piano, percussion, composition, electronics, MaxMSP, spatialisation
Tristen Parr: violoncello
Aaron Wyatt: violin/viola, iOS programming
Louise Devenish: percussion
Sound Design: Johannes Mulder
Technical Assistants: Laura Halligan, Jean-Michel Maujean
Comments
Hope, C., Vickery, L., James, S., Parr, T., Wyatt, A., & Devenish, L. (2015). Existence Éphémère. Perth, Western Australia: Tura New Music, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts.
https://decibelnewmusic.com/event/anime/