Abstract The transformation of image and sound into dialogue by Dr Yashaen Luckan, Dr Annie Morrad and a Majority Being (More Than Human).
Working with what Gary Peters describes as “An improvisation that is substantial to the extent that it genuinely works through the dialectic of individuality and framework”. (Peters, 79, 2009). We are exploring how dialogue can transform the constituent parts. Eddie Prevost, writes that ‘The whole essence and meaning of dialogue is transformation’ (Prevost, 67, 1995). Through the following three elements, two sound instruments, taken from two different musical traditions, Indian and Western and one video using a dialogical method of interaction with the more than human avian. This performance explores the use of improvisation when in the dialectic framework. To engage with how live improvisation transforms through non hierarchical methods, where each ‘voice’ is from ‘the point of view’ of the participant. Always in relation to the other two, forming a collective language of image and sound.
Through live sonic interaction, the project treats dialogue itself as a material practice: a way of writing in space; a choreography of listening; a method for thinking beyond linguistic determinism. The performance presentation ultimately proposes suspension as an artistic strategy for unsettling strict systems of legitimation and opening up shared, nonverbal practices of collaboration.
The questions raised are: How does the visual form sound?
How does the visual contribute to the improvisation that the sound is invested in?
How is the silent video visual formed from the More Than Human (Dominate Beings), connecting to live instrumental sound from the humans? Where does visual and sound tonality link? How does rhythm in the flow of visual tonality contribute to the rhythmic pulse of the instruments?