To celebrate that today is the final day of teaching for twenty weeks - yes, can't quite believe it myself either - we shall be performing a rather splendid concert this evening. When I say we, I refer to the staff and students of KU music dept. Now, we like a challenge, so here's what we're attempting.
A magical melange of art forms, interwoven to create a narrative that is loosely based around the monomyth, The Hero's Journey. If you're not familiar with this, follow the link - pretty much most Hollywood movies use it as a framework, Star Wars being perhaps the best example.
There will be singing. Much singing - both our chamber choir and chorus are performing, as well as some rather snazzy sound diffusion courtesy of the noiseboyz and girlz. Students and staff have composed much of the music and there will also be dancers, with Wii controllers strapped to their bodies, who will trigger and perform large sections of music through their choreography.
And to really spice things up, whilst most of our performers will be in Kingston, we've also decided to send some students to perform in Amsterdam. The concert will then take place between the two cities, with our tech boys running live weblinks so that the performers and audience in Kingston can see, hear and interact with the performers and audience in Holland.
It's all a bit ambitious really, but I think it's going to work!
Finally, and just because we can do, we're going to broadcast the whole thing on the world wide web. Phew! So...
Friday 7th May, 7.30pm
T W I N C I T I E S
The Hero's Journey
Click the link above to see if we pull it off. Beats watching all this nonsense about the election.
a l e x m o k e
p.s - well done Brighton Pavilion!
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