How to speak of an improvisation experiment?
The Bays are all about improvisation. Unique 100% improvised sets. No products, no rehearsals. They just play, they are the performance.
The Heritage Orchestra are all about adaptation. They construct inventive covers of eclectic material, it's all honest and fresh.
They played together on the Southbank last Saturday in an unusual improvisation set up. The bays were on the line, excited and exciting. Two composers, for the strings and the brass sections, were writing the score as the concert unfolded, reacting, initiating the moves. The notes unravelling on the screen, mirrored and amplified with some great visuals cut as the show went along. And in the middle the musicians of the orchestra playing on the fly, interpreting and pulsating this truly organic live music.
I feel privileged but also a little weird to talk about it. It's a concert never to be repeated. Just a fleeting moment. Collection of surprise and energy. It's a secret difficult to let you in on.
