“If you cannot swallow a piece of food, turn round and throw it somewhere.” Erasmus, 1530.
“Never tilt your chair back on two legs. Never push food onto a fork with your finger. Never eat with your mouth open.” Mrs Beeton, 1859.
What initially drew you to the idea of working with cutlery as a sound source?
Initially I thought cutlery might be a sonic area worth research and investigation. I’ve certainly used a lot of glass and glasses, goblets, bowls and metals in previous work, so perhaps cutlery is a natural extension of that. A lot of my pieces also start with a sort of visualisation – how does it look as it sounds, or how does the sound of it look? I always imagined these racks of pitched hanging cutlery framing the space, but I didn’t know what that would sound like. I would also say that some recent work has dealt with content issues regarding social etiquette, rules regulations and gestural syntax in non-verbal communication, (What Hath 2012; Self Accusation 2013; Permission To Speak 2016). Never Tilt Your Chair adds to this body of work.
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