{"id":1229,"date":"2015-05-20T10:17:30","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T09:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.corkcitygamelan.ie\/blog\/?p=1229"},"modified":"2015-05-21T15:28:44","modified_gmt":"2015-05-21T14:28:44","slug":"playing-at-pigtown-scratchings-dance-limerick-7th-may-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.corkcitygamelan.ie\/blog\/playing-at-pigtown-scratchings-dance-limerick-7th-may-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Playing at Pigtown Scratchings, Dance Limerick, 7th May 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Alison "Little" Forbes conducting<\/p><\/div>\n

My first live gig this year – expanding the Cork City Gamelan into Limerick – and the most enjoyable one since I started playing live again.<\/p>\n

I played the Waterphone under the baton of a very capable conductor: Alison “Little” Forbes is an artist and musician with whom I have been friendly ever since I first came to Ireland, but this was actually our first time performing together. The performance was a “pretend concert hall event”, and Little was “conducting” with paint and brushes.<\/p>\n

Pigtown Scratchings<\/a> is something like an inter-disciplinary avant garde improvised in flux … etc … cabaret show. Check the link to find out more about it and about the amazing artists we shared the bill with…<\/p>\n

Dance Limerick<\/a> was perfect as a venue: a converted church with a real dance floor. Room acoustics don’t come much better than THAT.<\/p>\n

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playing the Waterphone<\/p><\/div>\n

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I had composed a graphical score for a “Concerto for Waterphone and Pigtown Scratchings”. On the day before the show, we used some gates and bins and things around the city to record sounds for making a backing track. Between one thing and a few others, we ran out of time, so I changed the second movement a bit. I left out the introduction and the coda … making it just one long improvised cadenza – that’s ok, things like this are part of the Spirit Of Pigtown Scratchings.<\/p>\n

What gives Pigtown Scratchings its unique character, its reason for existence, even, is the interdisciplinary All Stars Jam at the end. What an experience, to be jamming with a dancer and a storyteller … and Roger Gregg, one of the first people I jammed with when I first came to Cork … full circle, 30 years later!<\/p>\n

It was a great night – thanks to everybody for their generous help around all the difficulties we were facing.<\/p>\n

A special Thank You to Gareth Stack for allowing me to use his photos!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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