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FIRST BUZZARD AT THE BODY
CANCELED
A performance of experimental music and poetry about death, capitalism and ornithology.
A setlist of poetic texts are subjected to transformative compositional processes, gutting them of meaning or stumbling through the banal into the sublime. The raw material of the poems is musicalised through cassette loops and digital looper, song, screen, cunning use of microphones, and Elliot Vaughan’s dynamic, embodied delivery.
Stylistically, the show draws on 70’s sound poetry, 60’s minimalist composition, the immediacy of punk and stand-up comedy, and the sprawling romance of the natural soundscape.
CANCELED
THE ARTIST
Elliot Vaughan
CREATOR/ PERFORMER
Elliot Vaughan is an experimental music composer and performer. Following fifteen years studying and freelancing in Canada, he now lives and works back in Aotearoa, where he grew up. His diverse output includes composed theatre and performed installation as well as functional, pop and concert music. Through it runs a focussed interrogation of the frame of music performance, borrowing the co-collaborative and interdisciplinary apparatus of theatre. There is an aesthetic link too, where beauty and romance never quite transcend the absurd.
IG: @iffy.south
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
HERO IMAGE PHOTOGRAPHY: Dianna Thomson
With thanks to Antonia Barnett-McIntosh, Eleanor Bishop, Sacha Copland and Nick Zwart
