[spectre] New podcast: CASCANDO. Variations for another dramatic piece, a reintrepretation of Samuel Beckett's play "Cascando", by Joan Morey

[Radio Web MACBA]

*New podcast: CASCANDO. Variations for another dramatic piece,
a reintrepretation of Samuel Beckett's play "Cascando", by Joan Morey *

Link: http://rwm.macba.cat/en/specials/samuel_beckett_joan_morey/capsula
Liner notes: http://rwm.macba.cat/uploads/20130718/Cascando_eng.pdf

'Cascando' is a radio piece for music and voice, in which three characters
bring listeners up against the basic mechanisms of radio. One is the Opener
(L'Oeuverer), who directs the action from a mixing desk in a neutrals
studio space; another is the Voice (La Voix), which comes to us from an
unknown space and could perhaps be the subconscious mind or the thoughts of
the Opener. The third character is the Music. Word, music and silence are
thus employed as the basic units of expression of the language of radio
(and, by extension, the language of art), which are juxtaposed or overlap
in this piece but do not interact.

When Joan Morey uses Cascando to produce a new variation he not only
assumes the structural complexity of the original work but also gives it a
twist: Cascando. Variations for another dramatic piece welcomes the
exhaustive instructionsmarked on Beckett’s text and requires that the same
actor performs the two speaking parts. The character played by music, on
the other hand, is inserted as a cliché, further hindering the role of the
artist as creator, since here he executes a type of mannered patchwork.

The radio play Cascando. Variations for another dramatic piece was
presented inside MACBA as a live performance on 23 February 2013, within
the programme Experience MACBA. The sound filled the atrium and was
accompanied by a text projection with Catalan subtitles. Two actors
performed the sound piece in a theatrical form and choreographed for all
three floors: the sound booth used by the interpreter of L'Oeuverer and La
Voix was sited on the top floor (offering a peripheral vision of the
performer) and the audience was conducted by an actress/hostess situated at
the central point of the ramp in order to get a general overview and the
ideal position for listening to the work.

Enjoy!
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