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 ghost dance -michael giles, jamie muir, david cunningham |
audio extract 'snake dance' |
music composed and performed by:
michael giles: kit drums, assorted percussion, mouth horns, mouth reeds, bow, voice, keyboard
jamie muir: assorted percussion, hand drums, bow, thumb piano, mouthpiece, conch
david cunningham: loops, treatments, guitar, occasional percussion
'ghost dance', a film by ken mcmullen
'ghost dance' DVD
the collaboration -david cunningham
an interview with jamie muir
michael giles information
david cunningham -discography
in 1983 as we began to work as a trio, ken mcmullen commissioned us to provide the music for his film 'ghost dance'. the film was made in a very improvisational way, exploring the collision between ethnic cultures and western cities -the rich inner mythologies of the one and the alienation of the other -and the philosophies that were beginning to explore this odd melée and what it reveals about us.
we approached the music in the same way, but more instinctively than intellectually, as is the nature of music. we produced bits and pieces of improvised music mostly using very simple non-tec instruments, hand drums, kazoo, thumb piano, bells, voice, found things, very simply constructed things and so on, which was then molested with technology till it was thoroughly macerated into some other hybrid shape. we would then take this as the basic material and try to make sense of it and develop it within the context of the film.
giles,
muir,
cunningham 1996
track listing:the recording contains analogue tape distortion, noise and hiss which, besides being unavoidable, at times form an integral part of the music.1 ghost dance 5.41
2 scratching the curve 1.35
3 spillers village 7.27
4 cascade 3.52
5 screenwash 2.51
6 mouthwork 2.45
7 snake dance 2.05
8 the moving cymbal 2.51
9 metalwork 1.29
10 slow motion 1.46
11 cargo 2.52
12 pascale 2.01
13 blue dance 6.01
14 ghost dance reprise 4.55
15 the trial 6.34
thanks to: ken mcmullen, robert hargeaves, mark lucas, jane thorburn, rob ayling
splash images derived from 'ghost dance', a film by ken mcmullen with leonie mellinger, pascale ogier, robbie coltrane, dominique pinon and the participation of jacques derrida and stuart brisley
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