Collaborations - Sonia Paço-Rocchia

I Became Luminous

experimental multimedia performance

16/09/2011

I Became Luminous is a experimental play produced by The Olga & Clarence Memorial Theatre Company for which I have been commissioned to compose the music.

The music is really important and present in this play. I perform solo, live with bassoon, voice, glockenspiel, melodica and live electronics.

by Ieva Strazdina and Jeffrey Gordon Baker, The Olga & Clarence Memorial Theatre
text by Antonin Artaud, St Augustine, Guy Debord, Jean-Jacques Rousseau,
Arthur Rimbaud and Patti Smith
music and sound by Sonia Paço-Rocchia

performed by Jeffrey Gordon Baker, Ieva Strazdina and Sonia Paço-Rocchia
produced by Else Prünster
costume design by Anita Gatere
camera by Andrew Crowe
montage by Ana María Reyes

performed in June 2011, in London

Dé de dense .3

23/06/2010

Dé de dense .3 is a experimental multimedia performance, containing visual work, moving image, video, performance, poetry, sonic art and music.

Michel Smith and I received a commission from Pascale Malaterre to make the music/sonic art part of this street theatre show.

I was using 6 big boxes as control interface for my music. These boxes contain accelerometers and they positions were determining the type of sound that was going to be heard.

I did tape, live computer music and played bassoon live for this performance.

This show have been premièred in Paris, 25th and 26th of June 2010, at Square Émile Chautemps - near the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers. Production was by Pascale Malaterre and 2r2c.

Ice mealting in Dé de Dense

Sonia playing her 6 boxes intallation-instrument

For Focus

01/03/2010

(audio) Woman voice extract for Focus Installation

Sticky Sticky Pathways

30/09/2009

Sticky Sticky Pathways was for one week at The Shunt, in London (7 performances)
As it is a space specific work it is quite different from the premiere last March.

Sticky Sticky Pathways
Contemporary dance/movement & music improvisation/live art/sound art performance and installation.

Choreographer’s note:
Sticky Pathways is an unfolding labyrinth of rambling dimensions and slanted reflections where people exist on the cusp of dream and reality.

Choreography - Lucy Ridley
Music Performer - Sonia Paço-Rocchia (bassoon, treble recorder, voice, live electronics)
Costumes - Chantal Francis
Dancers/Performers - Carly Blackburn, Lauren Bridle, Maxine Calleja, Chantal Francis, Aislinn Grech, Emelia Lazarou, Lucy Ridley 

(photos, Andrew Crowe and Isaak Mavridis, filmed by Sandra Kolar)

Sticky Pathways was as well an installation that was including a 8 channels music track, a lot of solo tape and a frame with some headphones. Here three extracts of the 45 minutes long music track.

(audio) solo tape
(audio) recorder
(audio) bassoon