Moving Rocks - inspiration
Just wanted to acknowledge one of my main inspirations for Moving Rocks, the 2000 work by Slovenian choreographer Iztok Kovac, Dom Svobode. Here is a link to a clip of the film:
I've been pondering over the feedback I got from the lovely audience yesterday, and the question of sound keeps coming back to me. How different the sounds would have been in an operational quarry. The sounds I heard during the past week in the Ogwen valley were:
Cuckoo - best sound
Other birds
Climbers - calling to each other, chatting and clinking their gear
Sheep
Cars
RAF Jets
my imagined sounds from a working quarry:
explosions
Rocks falling and crashing
Tools against rock - the gentle tapping sounds of splitting slates and the stronger sounds of hammers
Men talking and shouting
Horn sounded before an explosion
Sound of trolley transporting slate up and down the quarry
Sound of worker's boots walking and running on broken slates - crunching sound
Anybody think of any others, please do tell me.
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Comment by Lindsey Colbourne on June 5, 2015 at 2:09
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Ydw! Wela i di yn fuan! Edrych ymlaen...
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Comment by Kate Lawrence on June 5, 2015 at 2:04
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Cheers Lindsey, are you still able to come to my house at 3pm? Number 3. See you very soon!
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Hi Kate, great to read about your R&D week, sharing etc. The pictures are great and it sounds like you had a very authentic experience in terms of struggling against the weather, just as did the quarrymen! Some sounds that I think of in terms of a working quarry:
wind, water, rain
machines in the sheds
men singing
Slate being tipped (on the Nantperis side!)
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