I think it was a feeling is a performance experiment about self voyeurism, shame and sensation. It’s also about pissing yourself: what it feels like when you can’t control it, and when you can. Elana will instruct you until you’re hyper aware of your body + bodies around you. You’ll be taught how to rub your fingers together, swallow + hide a wet patch. I think it was a feeling is brash, noisy + tender. It asks you to let go of control—because maybe pissing yourself actually feels good.
Writer and performer, Elana Binysh, will be experimenting live on stage with sound designer Naycha Somko.
Bill Hawkes has played viola and violin with Michael Nyman, the Balanescu String Quartet, the Nigel Kennedy String Quartet, Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush. In this solo set he plays a piece written for him by the composer Gavin Bryars and his own arrangement of Pink Moon by Nick Drake.
Doors for this event open at 7pm. The events begins at 8pm. A wide range of refreshment are available throughout the evening from the cafe.
Blanc Sceol (Stephen Shiell & Hannah White) will be performing their piece ‘Kinetic Resonance’ on a new instrument called the Orbit they designed and made in collaboration with local luthier Kai Tönjes. Inspired by the work of Walter Smetak and an instrument called a torre (tower) made by his students in the Brazilian band Uakti, the Orbit is a ten-sided instrument played by two musicians. The body is spun by one performer while the other holds a bow to ten rotating strings, creating trance-inducing drones and ethereal harmonics. Blanc Sceol are an artist duo who work in the expanded field of listening, sound, and performance.
Learn about the instrument: www.blancsceol.co.uk/Orbit-the-instrument
The opening set features the violinist and producer Agathe Max.
‘With an elegant command of melody and a strident use of rhythm, Max … bridges the gaps between minimalism, post-classicism, the avant garde, krautrock, and plain old-fashioned pop’ (Boomkat)
NOTE: this performance will take place at the Colyer-Fergusson Hall, Gulbenkian Arts Centre, University of Kent on Sunday 13th October 2024 at 8.00pm. Free entry, booking required. Contact Gulbenkian box office for booking.
Stevie Wishart is an internationally established composer, violinist and hurdy-gurdy player whose current work focuses on ecology and the environment. She started her career playing with leading free jazz players in London, Berlin and New York as well as establishing the award-winning early music ensemble Sinfonye. Since then she has made music for concerts, galleries, theatre and dance with commissions from the BBC Proms, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Ensemble Variances. Her music has been used by choreographers from Pina Bausch to Wayne McGregor.
The undoubted master of the hurdy-gurdy in the UK is Stevie Wishart, who plays both traditional early music and contemporary experimental music. She says the hurdy-gurdy is like "an acoustic synth" (The Quietus)
Free Range has commissioned Stevie to write a piece for and with the Free Range Orchestra. Through collaborating with the group and individual players, Stevie will create music that combines her ecological concerns with an understanding of musical communities.
Free entry. Book your free ticket through the Gulbenkian Arts Centre box office. https://thegulbenkian.co.uk/events/stevie-wishart/