My DYCP (Develop Your Creative Practice), entitled Choreographic Sound ∞ Music: Expansion & Transformation, explored the notions of fluidity, multiplicity, and entanglement through vocal coaching with Jenny Moore, Alice Grant, Arianna D’Amato, and Roy Hart coach Nadine Rodilla; creative musicianship mentoring with Maria Moraru; training in music production and live electronic music performance with Jose Macabra and Dan Nicholls; coaching with Eva Martinez; sound art and philosophy with Salomé Voegelin; and dramaturgy with Alexandra Baybutt — alongside my own ongoing integration, development, and creative practice.
Using Ableton, I created the track Hello Simpling and a soundscape drawn from field recordings made in the Minett, the red earth region of Luxembourg. These were presented as a sound installation at the trough sensuous landscapes event at Cercle Cité in Luxembourg on 30 September 2023 — an invitation to share my DYCP research, and part of my broader inquiry into sound, place, and the body.
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A soundscape composed from both original and technologically recomposed field recordings of animal and elemental sounds from the Minett — weaving recognisable landscapes of sound with fictive dreamscapes — born out of walks through the terre rouge of south-west Luxembourg: Rumelange, Esch-sur-Alzette, Belvaux, and the Giele Botter, listening into the landscape’s pluralities and to what possibilities might emerge.
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In addition to the sound installation, we enacted a 30-minute performance score — sounding the body-landscapes — at Cercle Cité in Luxembourg on 30 September 2023: sonic landscapes born from our sensing of vibrations, listening, sounding, and shifting bodily states, unfolding across different temporalities through layering and transformation. Videos of the performance can be found here page.
Sound design: Jose Macabra
Performers and collaborators: Laura Doehler, Christine Sollie and myself
Dramaturgical collaborator: Alexandra Baybutt
Mentor: Salome Voegelin
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A soundtrack created from our sounding the body-landscapes rehearsals and event, created by Jose Macabra.
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Responding to the task of creating a track using Ableton’s MIDIs and Simpler, and taking as a starting point a track to be reimagined through Ableton’s Simpler — here, a layering towards the simpling of a sample from Paradise Valley by Jay Daniel.
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