: What's on › 2009 ( July to December 2009 + January to June 2009 )

Sticky Pathways at The Shunt

19/09/2009

Sticky Pathways is a contemporary dance/movement and music improvisation/live art/sound art performance and installation about dream and reality.

I’m the musician/performer (bassoon, treble recorder and voice with live electronics, controlling some live electronics with some sensors on the dancers).

4 nights (Wednesday to Saturday)
23rd, 24th, 25th, 26th September
Perform twice a night at 8/9:30ish (40 min)
The installation will be running from 6
Entry fee here (I have a few free tickets, contact me!)

Shunt is located in London Bridge Station. Look at the map!
NOTE: because of the location of the venue you need to have an ID to get in

The Shunt is a extraordinary venue that will close down very soon. This may be your last chance to go there before then! There are plenty of very interesting performances and installations to look at to have a very nice and exciting evening!

Sticky Pathways:
As it is a space specific work it will be quite different from the premiere last March.

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.

Music note:
In Lucy’s Sticky Pathway the music has been involved in the creative process at all times. From the beginning we did dance and music improvisation where the dance and music influence each other. For this work it was very important to have a strong link between the dance and the music and to integrate completely the music and the musician in the work itself as well as incorporating sounds made by the dancers in the music. To be able to make this mutual influence dynamic we used live music either solo or with live electronics (bassoon, treble recorder solo and voice with live electronics) or accelerometers to follow closely the movements of the dancers. (Accelerometers from Nintendo Wii Remotes that control the sound in an application programmed by Sonia Paço-Rocchia using Max/MSP)


Choreography - Lucy Ridley
Music - Sonia Paço-Rocchia
Costumes - Chantal Francis
Dancers - Carly Blackburn, Maxine Calleja, Aislinn Grech, Emelia Lazarou

(photo, Irene Segura)

Pedalling Under London's Clouds at EXPO LEEDS

14/09/2009

I’ll be performing my piece for bicycle solo, Pedalling Under London’s Clouds at EXPO LEEDS


EXPO LEEDS
presented by Sound and Music and Media and Arts Partnership (MAAP)
Expo is the UK’s largest annual free festival of Sound Art and Experimental Music

EXPO LATE: CLOSING CONCERT

Left Bank Leeds Cardigan Road, LS6 1LJ
Sunday 27th, 18.30 til late
FREE

A PACKED CLOSING PARTY FEATURING EVERYTHING FROM DERANGED DADA DRONE TO SONICALLY ENHANCED COSMETICS.
More information here

Semiotic Song

26/07/2009

live painting to musicial performance in which I’ll play bassoon and live electronics
Hackney Wicked Arts Festival

31st July 2009
6 to 9
FREE
Hackney Wick Rail Station on London Overground.
Turn left from the station, left on White Post Lane and you’ll see us at the end by the big red door.

Painter: Graham D. Elder
Drums & Junk, composition: Jonas Golland
Bassoon & Live Electronics: Sonia Paço-Rocchia
Bass: Jason Palmer
Guitar: Kazuya





How To Be A Composer, With Paul Morley

19/07/2009

CoMA is an ensemble I am involved with, that has for aim to develop and perform a repertoire of contemporary music that is playable for any standard without having to compromise the quality of the music. It is a very interesting challenge for composers and if they success, the music would be played extremely musically because amateur players do it because they like contemporary music, and often put the time needed to understand the music.

Last autumn CoMA London worked with Paul Morley who decided to study composition at the Royal Academy of Music without having any classical training. We played sketches of his music and we also performed his piece in a concert in the Royal Academy of Music, 3rd March 2009. Here we can find some intermediate videos of his work to make a complete documentary based on this one year of learning composition.

How To Be A Composer With Paul Morley
Episode 1
Episode 2

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