POLLINATION
Schedule
Fri Sep 20 2024 at 07:30 pm to 10:00 pm
Location
Common Ground Cafe | Oxford, EN
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POLLINATIONBruno Guastalla – voice & electronics
Dominic Lash – double bass
a performance along J.H. Prynne’s poem TO POLLEN
in the French translation by Abigail Lang AU POLLEN
20 September 2024 7:30pm
Common Ground 37-38 Little Clarendon Street
Oxford, OX1 2HU
£10 / £8
J.H. Prynne’s poem TO POLLEN was written c. 2006.
It is an extraordinary text on many levels; it has for us a strong resonance with current events. It was written in the aftermath of the Iraq war, as the knowledge about Abu Ghraib filtered through.
The performance consists of a voicing/vocalizing of the whole text, from the remarkable French translation by Abigail Lang.
The performance is a real-time collaboration between Bruno Guastalla (using multiple delays for the voice) and the exceptionally inventive double bassist Dominic Lash.
The text – both the English original and the French translation- will be projected one stanza at a time as the performance unfolds, via an overhead projector.
With thanks to Paul Medley
(technical support / documentation)
and Alex Chesters at Common Ground.
# Spoonhunt record label (CD / download)
# http://dominiclash.blogspot.co.uk/
# www.brunoguastalla.com
here is a review / commentary on To Pollen by Jennifer Cooke
https://intercapillaryspace.blogspot.com/2007/04/warring-inscriptions-j-h-prynnes-to.html
# www.brunoguastalla.net
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Common Ground Cafe, 25 Wellington Square, Oxford, OX1 2JH, United Kingdom,Oxford, OxfordshireEvent Location & Nearby Stays: