betty
‘Betty‘ is a show on the edge between theatre and dance. For director Gil Renders, 5 paintings of Gerhard Richter were a starting point. She asked choreographer Anabel Schellekens, writer Esther de koning and composer Ruben Nachtergaele to make a toolset of raw material inspired by the paintings.
Together with dancers Lie Antonissen, Gina Teunissen and Charlotte Vander Zande, she manipulated the given input and formed a performance.
The notion of ‘time’ is central here, both for form and content.
I invited Esther Liebeert to record some vocal stuff and a bit of violin. It ended up in some rather abstract, minimal tracks that I re-edited to fit into the global tension and tempo of the finalized piece.
I used a lot of granular synthesis here. For the moment, granulab by Rasmus Ekman is one of my favorit software instruments. At the same time, I’m also very enjoying ‘no-input mixing’ these days. That’s how I made ‘tickledrone’. Of course I encountered that phenomenon myself, while messing around with my mixing desk. Examples like Toshimaru Nakamura and Gert Jan Prins pushed me to explore the possibilities of this approach. I also use it a lot in kapotski. The last audio-track in this post is a remix I did of ‘muzak’ by Jonas Nachtergaele.
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two candles
hopper
tickledrone
voxmessup
muzakbetty