The art of drone at Fringe 2016
A Wintec music tutor will finally be performing a piece which he describes as unstructured and hardly practised at next month’s Fringe Festival.
The Unseen Mechanised Eye, which Kent Macpherson will stage with four others, is a 45-minute piece that contains ambient sounds captured through phonography, as well as classic Māori instruments, looped cello and “improvised visuals”.
Macpherson says he’s been trying to get the new ensemble off the ground for “a very long time”.
He describes their sound as drone. “There’s no vocals, its all instrumental. There’s no lyrics, no song titles, there’s no form or structure,” he said.
“We’ve only had one rehearsal, and we’re only ever going to have one rehearsal”.
Rob Thorne plays a
classical Māori
instrument. Photo:
Supplied
Joining Macpherson are Yotam Levy playing the cello, Rob Thorne playing classical Māori instruments, Paul Nelson who will control visuals, and Dan Reese who will do the mixing.
Macpherson hopes the show will “reach out to people and resonate their souls”.
“It’s intimate and fascinating and you lose yourself in it,” he said.
“If you don’t lose yourself in it, you become self-conscious and lose energy in what you’re trying to do.”
The show will take place on March 11 at the Clarence Street Theatre at 7.30pm.
