LEARNING TO SEE

Work In Progress

Project Leaders:

  • Klaus Engel - machine designer

  • Dave Klassen - percussion

  • Kathryn Ladano - bass clarinet

  • Isabella Stefanescu - visual artist

  • with Margaret Bárdos - mezzo-soprano

Learning to See is a durational performance for bass clarinet, percussion and euphonopen. Each of the 23 movements highlighting a certain type of musical gesture - the movement a person has to make in order to produce sound from an instrument. Learning to See encourages the audience to think of music as both sound and a visual form of expression and communication.

The inspiration of this piece is Drawing Techniques a book by Peter Jenny professor of architecture in Zurich, which deals with 22 techniques, to which we added the 23'rd - erasure. The visual artist works her way through each of the 23 drawing techniques, using the euphonopen, which manipulates the voice of the mezzo-soprano, while the bass clarinet and percussion interpret the vocabulary of each drawing technique description as a structured improvisation.

Workshop Recordings

Technique No. 1 - Gesticulate

Technique No. 8 - Form
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