To hear on
Friday 20. March 2009 5 pm - 9 pm --- In the context of 'Frühlingserwachen' at Reuterkiez
Saturday 21. March 2009 5 pm - 9 pm --- In the context of 'Frühlingserwachen' at Reuterkiez
Sunday 22. March 2009 2 pm - 9 pm
Cross Country Runner
by Rick Nance
Cross Country Runner explores the sound world of a single runner along the canals and fields of an English landscape. The sounds can be interpreted as signifying the runner's shift in focus between his internal state and the world around him. The sonic transformations from fields and bridges towards blood and breath serve as transport into a physical self awareness, and culminate at a "transcendent" singularity with runner and environment.
Rick Nance
is a composer living in Birmingham, Alabama. He completed his composition doctorate at DeMontfort University with John Young. Rick works with sound as a malleable substance, fashioning it by hand, listening, filtering, and cutting in a "bottom-up" process to discover irreducible sound objects. Narrative structures in some of these works are derived from the situations in with the sounds were gathered, but act primarily as a framework for the listeners to delve deeper into the material of sound, feeling its textures, seeing its colours, and watching it shift and turn in the surrounding space. Rick teaches electroacoustic music at Birmingham Southern College and works with Scrollworks, a program delivering free music lessons to under served children in the Birmingham area.
Rick Nance