| Pedestal by Jo Shapland |
| First presented in 1999 by Jo Shapland |
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synopsis: 1999-2002 2 objects in a room A human body and an electronic wave-form generator 2 voices collide... and merge JO verses H.A.R.R.Y. ‘See the woods through the trees’ is a dialogue of manipulation between a performer, an electronic sound generator, the sound generator’s maker and a live video screen display of merging waveforms made by this action. The Picture: Two three-foot high white plinths, two feet away from each other. Poised upon them and facing each other are the sound generator (H.A.R.R.Y.) and the performer (JO), connected up to the off-stage sound/vision desk, mixed by the sound generator’s maker. Framing this picture, and acting as a kind of backdrop, is the vivid green video projection of waveforms. Also ‘off-stage’, somewhere in the room (depending on the arrangement in the space) is a shrine to positive and negative energy incorporating arcane electronic symbols. The overall picture gives a strong colour contrast of bright red and bright green. The Action: The performer sets her body and voice into minimal movement with delicacy and sensitivity, manipulating and responding to her own heartbeat, the sound generator and the shifting wave displays. The piece builds, with added interactions from the sound generator’s maker, to a wall of enveloping sound, ending with the performer cutting and leaving the loop she has become part of. |
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