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Jake Bright – THE LIGHT BURNS BLUE – #composer @BristolOldVic

17.07.07 020…composer Jake Bright has been working hard in the rehearsal room, devising the music for THE LIGHT BURNS BLUE. here, he explores the process of scoring a piece of devised theatre, working COLLABORATIVELY with the young company, and tells us what we can expect from the show…

Can you tell us a little bit about the role music plays in The Light Burns Blue?

I’m always trying to work out how to enhance the drama and characters onstage – what they’re thinking, where the story’s going, how the characters feel. That’s the most important thing for me, capturing the moment. Since the whole piece is about a series of photographs, I guess that’s quite a good philosophy!

How do you even begin to approach the process of scoring a play – particularly one that is devised in the rehearsal room?

It all starts with great drama and Silva’s script has plenty of it. If the emotional and dramatic content of a scene is clear then the music flows naturally. For the most part, the music is based around a small series of piano pieces that I started sketching when I joined the process in early January. They were just little reactions to how the various characters were developing through the workshop phase. Since then, I’ve tried a few different ways to deliver these melodies, but the simplicity of the piano really seemed to cut through for me, particularly in support of Kate Alhadeff’s interpretation of Elsie. Aside from the prewritten cues, we rely a lot on improvisation to come up with some of the more complex choreographed scenes. It’s almost impossible to score these before I’ve seen them, so having a team who are keen to improvise has been a blessing…. Read more

I think it sits somewhere between Claude Debussy, Ralph Vaughan-Williams, Brian Eno and Ólafur Arnalds.  Sonically, it’s quite hard to describe, but all will be revealed on opening night!

Cassette Culture Downloads Performances

iTunes download – Cassette Culture 1989 – 2009 by This Window

Cassette Culture 1989 – 2009 ’ contains remixes of demo recordings, a complete remixed version of ‘Extraction’ plus live tracks from Regensburg Germany.

Cassette Culture

Recycled postcard that was originally a promo for ‘Cassette Culture

Cassette Culture by This Window

Cassette Culture download by This Window

Cassette Culture 1989 – 2009 by This Window

Tracklisting:

1 You Have The Power (3:07)
2 Higest Mountains (3:34)
3 Avocets (3:46)
4 Is It A Dream? (3:14)
5 Extract (Live Regensburg Germany) (11:01)
6 Extraction Part 1 (7:30)
7 Extraction Part 2 (9:21)
8 Extraction Part 3 (7:53)
9 Extraction Part 4 (9:44)
10 Hungry Children (2:04)
11 Where Is My Jesus (Jig-saw Man)? (4:37)
Label: M4TR Productions
Cassette Culture 1989 – 2009
Format: File, MP3
Country: UK, Europe & US
Released: 16 Jan 2009
Genre: Rock
Style: Art Rock, Goth Rock, Experimental
Credits: Remix – Jake Bright
Notes: In January 2009 ‘Cassette Culture 1989 – 2009’ was released as a commercial download. This project contained remixes of a series of demo recordings made in 2008 and a section of the live Plac.Art.X set that was streamed over the Internet to Regensburg Germany in August 2007. This release also contains a complete remixed version of ‘Extraction’ which was originally released in 1989. These remixes were by Jake Bright.
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Plac.Art.X

Plac.Art.X was a ‘placard’ taking place on the 18 th august 2007 at Leerer Beutel in Regensburg/Germany. Placard = headphone festival and is an alternative form of participating in music, both as a listener and as a performing artist. Headphone festivals are a social and musical experiment.This placard was one of the happenings during the art.xxXtenxions weeks during august from Pomodoro Bolzano media art group and the placard was curated by their artist in residency Björn Erikson (aka Miulew) from Sweden. Read more…

 

Contributing Artists:

Walter Cianciusi (Italy) El Lazo Invisible (Mexico) This Window (UK) chiste (Chile) John Kannenberg (USA) transponderfish (Germany) miulew (Sweden) christiaan cruz (USA) benedikt koehler (Germany) JanedaPain (USA) gintas k (Lithuania) little_johnny_anger ( – ) tbttbc (Belgium) Eartrumpet (UK) Jori Tokyo (Germany) { brad brace } (USA) bryce beverlin II (USA) phog masheeen (USA) nathalie fougeras (France) ookoi (France/Netherlands) usr/sbin (USA)