The Machine
Presentation
Each presentation is one piece: a performance, an installation or a score.
- Metronome to metronomeA technician starts a single metronome swinging. Instruments are brought on one by one and build to a crescendo, then the stage is stripped back to just the metronome.PerformanceIn development
- Graphic scoreSheet music with sketches and images inside the bar lines, communicating what each section should feel like and leaving instrumentation and sound to the performer.Score
- Hand-tool buildPerformers build a wooden percussion structure with hand tools, all playing in time. Each one works a given polyrhythm with their tools.PerformanceIdea
- Live sequencerA live feed of the instruments. Viewers request an instrument and sequence its rhythm from wherever they are watching.PerformanceIdea
- Music storeMusicians, apparently shopping separately in a music store, suddenly fall into sync and play one piece across the departments.PerformanceIdea