DISREHEARSPECTAKTAK – A PIECE IN SEVERAL PANELS misuses the techniques of radio feature-making to construct a number of freshly-pasted panels of sound. Each day of Borealis, Tagney records a different rehearsal by artists taking part in the festival, and asking the musicians questions.
The recorded material will then be rushed straight into a digital editor, and used to create that day’s piece: stealing the intimate, private and tentative sounds from musicians rehearsing, adding overheard conversations, asking leading questions, and then mangling the results.
Collage, montage, jump-cuts and silence will be employed to ease you into the dreamspace of rehearsal – a space of imagining and playfulness, of try-outs and mistakes. Is that a trombone, or did someone scrape a chair on the floor? Players will talk of their fears of performance, their anxiety, their dreams, their fantasies of success.
Co-produced with Borealis.