BODY MATTER [2015]
video
performance history
POSTPONED: 4/25/2020 - Chris Watford. The Bowerbird. Philadelphia, PA.
POSTPONED: 4/24/2020 - Chris Watford. Mirror in the Woods. Brooklyn, NY.
3/2/2018 - Chris Watford. NUMU: Neue & Unentdeckte Musik. Baden, Switzerland.
12/1/2016 - Chris Watford. Not Art Records. Brooklyn Studios for Dance. Brooklyn, NY.
5/9/2016 - Chris Watford. ShapeShifter Lab. Brooklyn, NY.
3/18/2016 - Chris Watford. AS220. Providence, RI.
12/18/2015 - Chris Watford. Institute for Contemporary Art. Boston, MA.
10/25/2015 - Chris Watford. Spectrum. New York, NY.
6/1/2015 - Chris Watford. Equilibrium Concert Series. Davis Square Theater. Somerville, MA.
3/24/2015 - Chris Watford. Boston University. Boston, MA.
further reading
Multiphonic-a-Day Episode 19 - Interview with bassoonist Ben Roidl-Ward on my piece BODY MATTER [April, 2020]
program note
BODY MATTER presents a soundworld caught in the middle of a metamorphic shift. The piece treats sound as a substance on its way to becoming an object, but in a form yet to be specified. It is encrusted and caked with earth and dirt; it is an organ whose membrane is gradually ossifying. At times it writhes; in others it obstinately maintains an effortful, concentrated reluctance to move. It is a thing in search of a body; a space in search of containment.