Phil Morton has been working with the Music System 50:50 for improvisers for twenty-four years. His work explores the possibilities and the limitations of freedom and improvisation in music. Today for Phil Morton System 50:50 is still the gift that keeps giving! How can this be so? How can an adapted chess clock used in System 50:50 open the doors of perception, our ears to the possibilities and limits of freedom in sound? One answer is that the device enables the creative and positive use of silence within the music; the silence is active and not a problem. The use of silence is egalitarian, too; the members of the ensemble have the same allowance of free play, tacet to create something new in a musical sense owned by those present. The outcome in the fine tradition of the Noise Upstairs is a work of beauty created in the moment or to have our hearts (minds and ears) broken!
hearing is believing,
hear it for yourself on the 14th November 2024!
ENESEMBLE 50:50 MANCHESTER, PLAYERS AND IMPROVISERS;
ALISTAIR ZALDUA, violin
GEOFF BRIGHT, reeds
GILL WHITELY, violine, maybe hurdy gurdy
GRAEME SHERRIF, keyboards
PHIL MORTON,accidents and treatments
SIXTH SEAT, to be confirmed.
THE AIM IS TO.
To explore the possibilities of freedom and improvisation and their limitations.
To shape the sound with silence.
To shape the ensemble size: moment by moment..
To empower the musicians with agency, they shape the music through active listening.
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