Aboutface Live Presents- Parvata: An improvised performance inspired by the ancient myth of the Hindu deity Parvati - daughter of the mountains. (2017) Featuring Joshua Churchill on Saxophone
https://soundcloud.com/joshuatristanchurchill

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Created for Intrinsic - http://experimentintrinsic.com/

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Premiere 20/03/2017 9pm on NTS radio, NTS channel 1  

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A series of intertwined improvisations to sonically interpret the story of Parvati; love, loss, death, re-birth and reunion though perseverance. (The full story which is based on several interpretations is in the slide show at the bottom of the page)

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Influenced by Indian performance of Kathakali – a dramatized ancient dance performed with the flexibility to allow performers to improvise in order to articulate mood and emotion of a story.

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Field recordings and experimental 35mm photography captured from 'Cat Bells' peak in the Lake District. 

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Photography was hung in the performance space to influence the improvisations, an Indian raga scale was explored to colour the musicality.

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Instrumentation:

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Synths, acoustic guitar, recordings, percussion, photography and concept - Ben Kelly (as Aboutface).

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Saxophone- Joshua Churchill.

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I lost a World — the other day by Emily Dickinson: Recited by Jenna Whelan and Conor O'Sullivan.

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Instruments: Korg Polysix, Minibrute, Korg Ms2000, Moog Mother 32, Korg PolySix, Prophet 6, EHX 4 track looper, Hapi Drum, Acoustic Guitar, Sax, wooden and steel bowls with stones amplified by contact mic's, acoustic percussion.