What
is it about music that releases our deepest memories? Nicholas Brown's
performance piece, AS
I HAVE NOW MEMOYRE
(2008), looks for answers in the relationship between a singing teacher
and her student. Vocal artists Linda Hirst and Natasha Lohan inhabit an
installation that is assembled during the course of the show. The
audience is invited to wander amongst the performers and witness their
actions as they decode musical notation with mirrors, write on
polythene walls and, at one point, build a chamber for a quartet of
birds that sings eighteenth-century music.
The first installation-performance of AS
I HAVE NOW
MEMOYRE took place at
Kings Place, London as part of mimomaniac's sell-out debut
show, THE
MEANING BETWEEN US, for Sound & Music's series of monthly
experimental
music nights, 'The Sound Source'. Since that original production, the
work has toured to Riverside Studios, London (Tête
à Tête opera festival, Aug 09), University of East Anglia (Sonic Arts
series, No. 58, March 2010) and the Louise Blouin Foundation, London
(April, 2010).