Alien Wind

‘In a mountain region where day in and day out one hears the wind relentlessly play the same invariable theme … [o]ne perhaps does not reflect that there was a time when the wind, which for many years has had its dwelling among these mountains, came as a stranger to this area, plunged wildly, absurdly through the canyons, down into the mountain caves, produced now a shriek almost startling to itself, then a hollow roar from which it itself fled, then a moan, the source of which it itself did not know, … until, having learned to know its instrument, it worked all of this into the melody it renders unaltered day after day. (Kierkegaard 1843c, p. 155)

The concept behind “Alien Wind” is very simple – it’s like a game of chinese whispers, or a drawing game i used to play.

Initial Plan
Echo 1: Violin & Cello improvisation
Echo 2: Linear drawing to map the improvisation
Echo 3: Graphic score interpretation of drawing
Echo 4: Violin & Cello performance of the graphic score
Echo 5: Vocal reenactment of the Violin & Cello performance
Echo 6: Dance interpretation of the Vocal reenactment
to be continued indefinitely…