Back again! I’m finding having this blog a really useful way to structure some of my thoughts in the madness of the Joy Orchestra project.
This week I started an intensive week of filming at the Welsh college of Music and Drama. There is some scary talent in that place: today I filmed four handed piano playing at break neck speed and met a lady who is making an instrument out of feedback.
The more I chat to people the more I keep coming back to language. I’d intended to make this project completly outside of language, just use sound and gesture in my films. But some of the stories I’m hearing are so profound – tales of the musicians ‘first’ instrument, the way an orchestra is like one animal responding almost telepathically to change – that I’m wondering where these stories can be heard?
I guess that’s one of the delights of conducting “research” as opposed to a “project” – I’m allowed to change.
