Salzburg

I’ve just got back from a trip to Austria to meet up and rehearse with Gonzalo and Solange, the dancers involved in the itango project. I’d made some changes to the program for the interactive dance floor, and we were trying to work out what it/I was capable of doing with the light effects so [...]

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more inspiration

I like this piece by Otros Aires…

Its spacious, but keeps your foot tapping. Quite eclectic, with the unusual vocal, like a mosque chant or something (sorry, I’m sure there is a better term!) mixed with what sounds like a sampled tango voice. I think the drum beat works well, it’s not [...]

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Candidates for rearrangement

I love this song… ‘Nostalgias’ by Juan Carlos Cobian to the poem by Enrique Cadicamo. I don’t think anyone has made a contemporary arrangement of it yet. I think it might be quite suitable for my itango project because it has a kind of circular melody at the beginning, and in the climax there’s a [...]

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what makes tango music tango?

Shaun (course leader) has asked me this question a couple of times, so I’m giving it some thought. There are of course a number of musical elements that come together to make a tango sound like a tango…
Tango almost always sounds intense, dramatic and melancholy, even though it’s not always in a minor key.
Perhaps the [...]

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sounds

I have the films of the last couple of times we made a performance using the itango pogram, so I’m thinking I will start with those.
I have to imagine the sounds that go with the images in the film…
For the projected images, I think the big rich ripples (where I’ve set the damping to let [...]

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Next project

I’m thinking about creating some music to use with the interactive tango performance. I like the piece we used in the performance at Tango-del-Bosque, particularly the way the music comes in on the first note and you’re not sure whether it’s feedback or a note… it gradually becomes apparent. I’d like to keep this electronic [...]

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First public performance of itango

At the Tango Del Bosque festival at Bylaugh Hall in Norfolk, Gonzalo, Solange, John and I set up the itango performance for the festival. This is the film of the live performance, just one take edited from the footage of the tracking camera and John’s camera on the ground.

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Milonga Feet

My last self negotiated project, thinking about rhythms and gender roles in tango.

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