Stevie Wishart - violin, hurdy-gurdy, vocals, electronics
Joan Grounds - visuals and live projection
Liberty Kerr - sound engineer
UT live is a multimedia event, with visual projections
by Joan Grounds using live close-circuit images of the gestures
and drama of musical performance with related images from the
exhibition. This is part of their ongoing project UT, which
was first shown at the AGNSW
in 1998. Libert Kerr's sound design will create a third dimension,
linking the acoustic spaces of the gallery with the music. Echoes
of the past in the present.
Like the art of the 1300s, the effect is "additive and compositive...
the sophisticated and elitist experiment coexist with the great
enerprise of popularisation, with interchange and borrowings..."
Umberto Eco, The return of the Middle Ages, from Travels in Hyperreality.
UT live sources some of the most experimental and virtuosic music of the
1300's, which is juxtaposed with original music and improvisation.
So hypnotic in its complexity - it possesses the ability
to 'divert the minds of the wealthy from perverse thoughts.'
The music sounds lively and as with much of Wishart's original music, her new pieces in
this program are inspired by medieval forms. These include songs
from her latest CD Azeruz (with Chris Abrahams, and Shane
Fahey).
