Theatre Screening: "The Sound of the Light, the Light of the Sound: Wave-Particle, David", "Imaginary Friends", and "Impro Picnic (for Piano and Hands)"
Argo, Jessica, Seki, Minori, Robertson, David, Parfitt, Chris and Cooper, Constance (2025) Theatre Screening: "The Sound of the Light, the Light of the Sound: Wave-Particle, David", "Imaginary Friends", and "Impro Picnic (for Piano and Hands)". Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow, Thursday November 20th 2025 [Show/Exhibition]
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| Creators/Authors: | Argo, Jessica, Seki, Minori, Robertson, David, Parfitt, Chris and Cooper, Constance |
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| Abstract: | Three films from the GIOGlobal ZOOM recordings were premiered in the Centre for Contemporary Art Theatre, as part of the GIOFest XVII 2025 Evening Concerts. "The Sound of the Light, the Light of the Sound: Wave-Particle, David", and "Impro Picnic (for Piano and Hands) are playful and profound relay duet pieces that at times unfold to a large ensemble of dancers and musicians, staged by Minori Seki in Soja Art House, with the Okayama creative community. For Impro Picnic Minori Seki offered the prompt: “Some musicians who come to Soja Art House plays online for the first time. For Wave-Particle, Minori Seki shared: "Imaginary Friends" is a short spontaneously arising film that spotlights a duet from improvising musician and experimental filmmaker Chris Parfitt, Wales, and Constance Cooper, an actor/composer/musician New York city. The duet is in response to the prompt of our friendships that formed over a ritual of weekly ZOOM recording sessions, between artists that have never met in a shared physical space - we asked, does this mean we are eachothers' imaginary friends? The performers share ambiguous and expressive hand gestures, incorporating humorous illusionistic paper hand props as a way of waving to eachother, across an ocean. The dance stimulates an improvised musical response from the Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra Global ZOOM ensemble. This spontaneously arising piece, seemed to plant the seed of the idea for "When is a Mirror not A Mirror", a Hybrid Piece for ZOOM orchestra and ROOM orchestra - which asked Chris Parfitt and Constance Cooper to project physical gestures on ZOOM into the darkened theatre to conduct the ROOM orchestra. These films allow the audience to feel the ZOOM performers expanded corporeal presence in the large theatre space, conveying the essence of weekly ritualistic performing recording sessions that have amassed over 600 hours of footage since March 2020. |
| Official URL: | https://www.cca-glasgow.com/programme/day-1-evening-concerts-2 |
| Output Type: | Show/Exhibition |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | collaborative creativity, dance, experimental film, telematic music, theatre, improvisation |
| Exhibitors names: | Argo, Jessica |
| Media of Output: | FIlm / Theatre Screening |
| Schools and Departments: | School of Innovation and Technology |
| Dates: | Date Date Type 20 November 2025 Published 21 November 2025 Completed 22 November 2025 Submitted 26 November 2024 Accepted |
| Funders: | Creative Scotland / Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra |
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| Event Title: | Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra GIOFest XVII 2025 Evening Concerts |
| Event Location: | Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow |
| Event Dates: | Thursday November 20th 2025 |
| Projects: | Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra GIOFest XVII 2025 |
| Output ID: | 10652 |
| Deposited By: | Jessica Argo |
| Deposited On: | 09 Mar 2026 11:44 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Mar 2026 11:44 |

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