EXIT
Description
Some thirty years ago, I took an overnight train from Paris to Italy and woke up to the sights and sounds of a new country. I had very little Italian back then, and this was the 80’s, before English had overtaken the world. One sign I kept seeing at every stop was USCITA; I had no idea what this meant, nor why every station had this name. I guessed that USCITA must have been a very big city indeed, and only through keen observation did I come to understand...
EXIT, created for Decibel, is fondly based on this memory, and was shot and recorded on my iphone6, on a series of train journeys around Italy this European summer. The letters of the word USCITA, which recurs through the piece like a refrain, have each been ascribed a single pitch of a whole-tone scale. Beyond that, I ask that you keenly observe and come to understand…
Keywords
art, performance, sound, music, Decibel, scale variable
Output Type
Performance
Publisher
Tura New Music & Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts
School
Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA)
RAS ID
20526
Additional Information
EXIT was composed by Felicity Wilcox 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). EXIT. Perth, Western Australia: Tura New Music, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts.
https://decibelnewmusic.com/event/anime/