Re: miss Understanding
Program, P.1801
- Identifier
- P.1801
- Category
- New Music
- Date
- July 19 – 27, 2002
- Description
- Re: miss Understanding consists of three premiere compositions by poets Lisa Anderson and Meg Walker and composers Ian Avery and Greg Corness. This collaboration will highlight notions about how one can be interpreted or misinterpreted, understood or misunderstood within the context of a group. For example, in the second composition, "What I really mean/What you really mean", the individuals will rally against the loss of their singular voice within the group. As one poet performs a text solo, the other begins to restate, paraphrase and misquote the original text. The first poet interrupts and tries to clarify her original statement, but she is limited to only using the words from the original text. Using a process of structured improvisation, various sounds will be layered into the compositions throughout the concert. Some of the sounds will be recorded live and immediately played back, others will range from prerecorded quotations and aphorisms that are part of the common vernacular, to sounds from a trumpet and a typewriter, to other found and electronic samples.