grind show (unplugged)
(2008)
by Tansy Davies
- Description
- Chamber ensemble of 5 players
- Duration
- 6
- Genres
- Mixed Chamber Ensemble
- Instrumentation
- fl.cl - pno (prepared) - vln.vlc
- First Performance
- 16.2.08, Turner Sims Hall, Southampton: Birmingham Contemporary Music Group
- Availability
Score and parts for hire
- Programme Notes
Grind Show is a superimposition of two scenes: the foreground in a bawdy dance hall, and the background a rainy landscape at night. The acoustic instruments play out a drama with a dialogue of irregular dances, while the electronics depict a sinister outside world. While composing grind show I saw a painting by Goya: ‘The St Isidore Pilgrimage’, which shows a crowd of debauched and frightened revelers appearing to flee across the hills from a distant town. It’s painted over an earlier landscape on which, in turn, the figures were superimposed. (Tansy Davies)