Exquisite Drones is a work for cello, and electronics music composed after the surrealist drawing game, "exquisite corpse," a collaborative game by artists to create bizzare and intuitive drawings whilst not knowing the other participants contributions.
Wick Simmons turns the group-work of the drawing into three compositions, written in isolation by the composers to express their personal relationships to long-held tones with spaces of humming, growling and words that cease to mean anything. Within the vibrating stillness of the drones, exists a whole world of possibility, where melody and rhythm may separate and unit again.
Creator, Wick Simmons
Composers, inti figgis-vizueta, Jack McGuire, Wick Simmons & Conrad Tao
Performers, Jack McGuire, Wick SimmonsScenic Design, Carolyn Mraz
Video Design, Laurie Olinder
Movement Director, Danita Shaheen
Recorded Vocals, Arga Reath, Blake Habermann
Producers, Alley Scott, Alec Silver
Production Coordinator, Siena Yusi
Composers, inti figgis-vizueta, Jack McGuire, Wick Simmons & Conrad Tao
Performers, Jack McGuire, Wick SimmonsScenic Design, Carolyn Mraz
Video Design, Laurie Olinder
Movement Director, Danita Shaheen
Recorded Vocals, Arga Reath, Blake Habermann
Producers, Alley Scott, Alec Silver
Production Coordinator, Siena Yusi
Photography by Bjorn Bolinder
