contribution # 4 | I WILL CARRY YOU OVER HARD TIMES | concept, composition, direction: falk hübner / performance: maarten zaagman
in i will carry you over hard times a percussion player performs a musical choreography without instruments, miming movements that are synchronized with sounds coming out of the loudspeakers. _the classical percussion-setup is absent. _the performer plays marimba, vibraphone, gong, a large bass drum and a whole range of other instruments - in the air. _in the course of the performance the initially empty stage becomes filled with objects related to classical percussion playing: various kinds of mallets, music stands, sheet music. _the performer gets more and more occupied by changing between the different absent instruments and bridging the distance between them in the stage space, ending in a tour de force in which the boundaries between the possible and impossible become very thin
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