The Tunes - Georgia

We all wanted music, sound to accompany the movement we had created. The main challenge we faced was creating sound that fit the movement already in place.

We started with brainstorms of tunes and soundscapes that we felt captured each moment in the piece, and after many agreements and disagreements, we started to compose.

Finding the right sound for walking, for the monster, for twinkling, chugging, for flocking, for stopping and starting. The process in itself a new discovery.

We started creating with the desire to have smooth blend between thoughts, a seamless transition from one world to the next. However, we found it washed out the movement. Having already created several drastically different emotions in the dancing, these seamless transitions blended the feelings together, when what we wanted was possibly a little more drama, some more drastic changes.

With this in mind we endeavoured to find the "transitions." We wanted coherency, but less sameness. Doing and undoing, switching, alternating, playing and placing with more precision now.

Now finally having the order and world changes that we felt alive dancing to, time to play with timing. Finding the right amount of each thought before we moved on. Also the new challenge of knowing when to stop altering the timing of the music, and start tailoring our movement.

And now having found the sound, the only thing left is to run with it.