Solo performance with mounted ball-on-string, cricket bat and paraphernalia, motion sensor, and live electronics.
Unscored; 9 mins duration.
First performed at the 2023 Listen to the Motion Festival, UCI.
Program Notes
Programmed in Max MSP and using MUGIC© motion sensor technology, Run, Chase (2023) is a generative performance artwork for cricket bat, ball-on-string and live electronics. The piece explores vernacularity and familiarity, juxtaposing radio-filtered recorded audio with synthesised, Americanised, clunky pronunciations of cricket’s characteristic jargon. The primary gestural device repeated throughout Run, Chase is a common cricket training exercise; this highly technical action is analogous to instrumental scale practice. Tiny variations in the gesture’s execution—as interpreted through MUGIC©’s continuous data stream—lead to increasingly pronounced sonic inflections. Run, Chase challenges distinctions between the ‘staged’ and the ‘real’; the audible and the comprehensible; the private and the performative. The work is simultaneously physically demanding and irreverent, offering provocations regarding the socio-cultural significances of aspiration, dis-/re-location, and referentiality.