More about our Hambidge residency, and finding new materials...
It's easy to plan for what you know, like we know we will be in residence for two weeks with a piano and we know we have a great collection of musical material. We know we want to make something very cool, very beautiful, and very integrated.
Of course, it's the things you can't know or plan for ahead of time that really make it interesting. For example, we didn't know how taken we would be by the red dirt and hiking trails...
...or how the elemental, earthiness of place would influence the materials we chose to work with. In the course of our days, we gathered a set of basic white materials -- flour, paper, cheese cloth -- and began to put them in conversation with our music, movement, space, and each other.
...Sometimes more elegantly than others...
