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body (#as_the_tex_t) (01/03/2017)

Corey Mwamba

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This piece asked improvisers to view my body in musical action as a dynamic score. From a video of a a performance in Leeds with my trio in 2013, I selected seven discrete physical states or poses that my body adopted while improvising. I drew line drawings of these poses, and utilised them in a schematic for improvisers Each pose is assigned a guiding statement for the performer. There is a text score, which I play, but the other improvisers do not. When the performer observes pose from me that matches one in the schematic, they improvise using the their guiding statement until they register another movement; or they feel that musically they should move on, or improvise independently. PERFORMANCES Leicester, May 2017: presentation at Midlands3Cities Research Festival (solo) Bucharest, June 2017: part of “21st Century Jazz - from tradition to the avant-garde" Artist in Residence” series (solo) London, June 2017: headline at LUME Festival (quintet)
typecomposition
keywordsimprovised music, Jazz Studies
copyrightCorey Mwamba, 2017
year01/03/2017