Digital Phasing
Digital Phasing
Nine musicians distributed across the southern hemisphere in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and Malaysia explore the use of latency as an agent for metric change when performing online. Commissioned as part of the DRUMMINGat50 project celebrating the 50th anniversary of Steve Reich’s Drumming, the project offers a pandemic perspective on Reich’s signature phasing techniques, through a new work titled Still Drumming 2020 by composer Jet Kye Chong. Performed across a range of percussive instruments through gaming platform Discord, out-of-phase rhythmic cells are perceived as stable in different locations, with moments of unity experienced only in transition. Mirroring everyone’s unique experience of the pandemic lockdowns, each performer and listener experience a unique version of this work specific to their location.
Presented by The Substation and DRUMMINGat50
Image credit: Karl Okelford