Archive Trails
In January 2011, three bold stravaigers – Alasdair Roberts, Aileen Campbell, and Drew Wright – set forth upon a twelve-week commissioning residency in The School of Scottish Studies Archives at The University of Edinburgh.
This site tracks their progress as they listen to tapes, sift through photos, conduct their own fieldwork and begin to develop new performances from their findings.
On tour October 2011!
Oct 13 : Peebles, Eastgate Arts Centre
Oct 14 : Perth Concert Hall
Oct 15 : Cupar Arts Festival
Oct 16 : Edinburgh, Scottish Storytelling Centre
Oct 17 : Aviemore, Old Bridge Inn
Oct 18 : Tobermory, An Tobar
Oct 19 : Rosehall, The Achness Hotel
Oct 23 : London, Cafe OTO
Oct 28 : Glasgow, CCA
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Drew Wright
Drew Wright - alias Wounded Knee – takes an interest in popular song, chants and ditties. Inspired as much by minimal techno as by folk forms he creates a strange and timeless Janus music that looks both to the ballads, shanties and worksong of old and the mechanised minimalism of the new: future primitive music.
Whereas Alasdair’s work focuses on texts – manipulating, recontextualising – Drew’s primary interest is in sound: texture, rhythm, melody, noise. He’ll be looking at canntaireachd and mouth music and the ‘sounds in the silences’ of the tapes (clocks ticking, cats mewing, sneezes!).
Links:
woundedknee.bandcamp.com
