Raymond MacDonald & Rachel Joy Weiss' "Duet for 2 people who have never met", episode 6: "The Kaleidoscope", a live/online performance @ ANALIXFOREVER
Raymond MacDonald and Rachel Joy Weiss have never met, but they have collaborated. In an effort to go headfirst into the ‘shifting tectonic plates of communication’ brought about by the Covid-19 lockdown, the duo decided to explore the possibilities of online improvisation, not only wrestling with hearing each other play for the first time, but also wading through the muddy waters of limited perception and spotty internet connection. Initiated by a series of improvisation sessions with Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra, the duo’s online collaboration is in no way intended as a consolation prize; to make it worthwhile, MacDonald and Weiss shot for a performance that would be wholly its own, ‘facilitating new ways of working, seeing and hearing’.
Implementing instrumentation and found objects, "Duet for 2 people who have never met" serves as a musical representation of ‘nature’s unremitting power to change our lives’, the music playing out as a humble act of resistance against our new enforced environments.
