Blue Note
View of Entry to the Gallery (Photo: Peter Legris)
View of Entry to the Gallery (Photo: Peter Legris)
View of North Space with Removable and Triggered Lighting (Photo: Peter Legris)
View of South Space (Photo: Peter Legris)
View of Wall Between Spaces (Photo: Peter Legris)
Rehearsal in Progress (Photo: Peter Legris)
The Room of Secrets (Photo: Peter Legris)
The Room of Secrets (Photo: Peter Legris)
Project
Blue Note
Blue Note
Toronto / Canada, 2008
Description
"Music won’t be made, but maybe music can be conjured, if you know how."
Blue Note is a collaboration between theatre artists, musicians and architects and was commissioned by the Harbourfront Gallery as part of the Fresh Grounds program. A character study of a vocal ensemble, Blue Note follows seven singers in rehearsal, painting a picture of each person through the thematic experience of loss. Much like a piece of choral music, the whole story is revealed only when the individual voices are singing together.
The architecture of the space creates an acoustically, visually, and socially provocative setting in order to challenge the conditions between play/rehearsal, performance/installation and player/audience. A visual narrative of colour, fragments of text, and a series of malleable light and acoustic devices complement the performance, and can be activated either by the players or by the audience to create alternate narratives. Each element plays the role of both environmental set and metaphor. The rag wall, for example, tempers the space acoustically and creates a textural linear narrative of wounded collaboration as the rags are tied together to form a single rope.
"Music won’t be made, but maybe music can be conjured, if you know how."
Blue Note is a collaboration between theatre artists, musicians and architects and was commissioned by the Harbourfront Gallery as part of the Fresh Grounds program. A character study of a vocal ensemble, Blue Note follows seven singers in rehearsal, painting a picture of each person through the thematic experience of loss. Much like a piece of choral music, the whole story is revealed only when the individual voices are singing together.
The architecture of the space creates an acoustically, visually, and socially provocative setting in order to challenge the conditions between play/rehearsal, performance/installation and player/audience. A visual narrative of colour, fragments of text, and a series of malleable light and acoustic devices complement the performance, and can be activated either by the players or by the audience to create alternate narratives. Each element plays the role of both environmental set and metaphor. The rag wall, for example, tempers the space acoustically and creates a textural linear narrative of wounded collaboration as the rags are tied together to form a single rope.