Event overview
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The Asian Music Unit and the Contemporary Music Research Unit in the Music Department at Goldsmiths in collaboration with the SEA Arts Festival present performances by the Six Tones of “Inside/Outside”, and “Post-human Computation”.
Inside/Outside is an installation and performance for three choreographed musicians based on a concept by Nguyen Thanh Thuy. Adopting a gender perspective on how traditional Vietnamese music is presented in Vietnamese TV shows, the installation depicts the musicians as wax dolls in glass boxes in a dark room. But who are these musicians? They play Asian instruments and wear traditional Vietnamese queen costume but one of them appears to be a Western man. What is Inside and what is Outside in this self-reflective imagery? The choreography, by Marie Fahlin, is based on analysis of gesture in Vietnamese TV-shows. The music, by The Six Tones (Nguyen Thanh Thuy, Ngo Tra My, Stefan Östersjö) and Matt Wright, builds layer upon layer of material from two traditional Vietnamese pieces. By the glass boxes you will find headphones with which you can enter a sonic world 'inside' the main performance in the video. As well as musical fragments, there are stories told by the individual musicians that place their performances against a tension between traditional Vietnamese culture and a globalized society.
Post-Human Computation, by Pierre Jodlowski, was premiered during the Tacit or Loud Festival at the Inter Arts Center in Malmö on November 28, 2014. The video is projected in a glass box in the room where Inside/Outside has just been performed. When the audience enters, the two Vietnamese performers are gone from their boxes and in the third box is a guitarist. The piece develops a dark and hard edged discourse on identity in a globalized and digital world. What is real and what is virtual?
Two performances will take place.
- Performance 1: 15.00-15.30 (“Inside/Outside”) and 15.45-16.10 (“Post-human Computation”)
- Performance 2: 19:00-19.30 (“Inside/Outside”) and 19.45-20.10 (“Post-human Computation”)
See the follow up panel on “Identity, Multiculturalism, and the Politics of Music Making”, featuring discussion of the work of the Six Tones event on 24 November.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 21 Nov 2015 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm | |
| 21 Nov 2015 | 7:00pm - 8:00pm |
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