Migration by Janek Schaefer
1 hour composition 'Migration' for the site-specific dance called
'Migrations' - choreographed by Noemie Lafrance, New York, May 4th 2005
Commissioned by The Whitney Museum of American Art
Part of the performance series 'Resonant Space'
Performed by the Liz Gerring Dance Company....
opposite Grand Central Station on 42nd St, NYC
Dancers float, hang and dangle from window ledges perched above the audience.
My sounds and images interpret this theme loosely by using source sounds from the migration patterns and movement of nature and its sounds 'above us'. Looking up! I was inspired by my new less urban surroundings here at home to create a piece using the new sounds and images I have been enjoying around me - collecting powerful and delicate recordings of: wind in winter branches, flocks of flying parakeets and our feathered friends on ledges/in trees, flying embers of a spring bonfire at dusk. On holiday in Lourdes I walked into the main pilgrimage church to find them tuning the upper register of the organ - the sounds swirling above me,so that was an uplifting moment! Also included is a recording of the dawn breaking in the Amazon as a our host family woke up and turned on the radio. The signal grew stronger and stronger as the sun rose.
The first half of the journey unwinds slowly and calmly, drifting through night trees and ethereal spaces as radio waves bounce off the stratosphere at first light in the heart of the Amazon. During the second half, sparkling sequences glitter in the rising sun and sounds circle overhead. Dense organ drones from Lourdes cathedral land as embers fly into the sky revealing hovering melodies. The tension unfolds slowly as we depart into the blinding white light of day with an ecstatic sequence of fierce beauty.
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Tracklist
| 1. | to Nairobi to Manaus to Walton | 28:10 |
| 2. | to Oval to Cologne | 5:16 |
| 3. | to Lourdes to Madrid | 15:06 |
| 4. | to New York to Eugenie to Perth | 11:27 |
Credits
Bip_Hop Records, France.
License
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Sound Artist, Entertainer, Professor, Janek Schaefer trained as an Architect at the Royal College of Art, where he developed his focus on the relationship between sound, space and place. He has exhibited & performed in 30 countries worldwide, from The Tate Modern to The Sydney Opera House. The Bluecoat gallery exhibited a Retrospective of his career in 2009, & has released 39 album projects.