ILINX

Ilinx is a fifty minute long composition in six episodes for solo percussionist and changing ensemble of musicians and dancers. The setup of the percussion instruments is changing for each episode according to specific floor plans and diagrams, and poses constant ergonomic challenges for the percussionist. The score cannot be performed without much movement of the percussionist: running, walking in circles, crawling, jumping and swirling. Gestures in Ilinx are made equally of sound and movement, but it is not a dance or a theatrical work, only an exaggeration of the motions percussionists do.

The six episodes are seamlessly tied one to the other and subtitled Edges, Intimate Things, Metallophone Nest, Pitches, Frontal Variations and Ending.

The subtitles represent the general topic of the episodes, yet they are not disclosed to the audience. In each episode the percussionist concentrates on a particular musical topic or theme and uses instruments of different timbre groups. Each episode presents different relations to space, different trajectories or axes of movement across the venue in varying velocity and manner, and a different attitude towards the audience. Meanwhile, the other musicians and dancers perform a parallel, seemingly disconnected set of short cues, never synchronized in tempo with the percussion part and absolutely unmindful and disregarding of the space, the audience and especially of the percussionist. The ensemble offers a contrasted musical and performative reality to that of the percussionist.

ILINX VIDEO

For percussionist, visiting musicians and dancers (2014)

Aiden McKee - Percussion

Tess Greenberg – Soprano; Kalinda Bittner – Alto; Simón Wilson – Tenor; Ben Greenberg – Baritone; Terre Lee – Violin; Sarah Lindmark – Cello; Evyn Stratman – Flute; Bijan Semnani - Tenor saxophone; Ben Negley – Trombone; Zachary Myers – Piano; Nathan Elias Kocivar -Keyboard; Ma'ayan Tsadka – Accordion; Lisa Beebe – Recorder; Alexandria Law - Dancer, choreographer; Rachel Peterson - Dancer, choreographer; Danielle Williamson - Camera 1; Robin Whitehouse – Production assistant, Camera 2, video editor

Performed on November 21, 2014 at the University of California Santa Cruz Music Center

 
 

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