Sun Keting x Huang Xiao: Listen

 for cinematic choreography and ensemble

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Sun Keting + LSO Soundhub

 

Three people who inspired me to write this piece –

American Poet Walt Whitman (1819-1892),

Acoustic Ecologist Gordon Hempton and Motion Artist Huang Xiao.

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‘Now I will do nothing but listen,

To accrue what I hear into this song, to let sounds contribute toward it

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I hear the sound I love, the sound of the human voice,

I hear all sounds running together, combined, fused or following.’

 

- Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself

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‘Silence is the presence of time undisturbed.

It can be felt in the chest. It nurtures our nature.

silence is not the absence of something but the presence of everything.’

 

- Gordon Hempton, One Square Inch of Silence

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I hear Whitman’s song in Huang Xiao’s dance...

I see her moving to the power of the silence…

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What emerges is the embodied awareness that silence - is the removal of excess material,

so that the true form of one’s consciousness,

of the world and of life itself

can be revealed.

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Now I will do nothing but,

Listen.

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Composer+Director Sun Keting

Choreographer+Performance Artist Huang Xiao

Ensemble London Symphony Orchestra musicians

 

LSO St. Lukes, London 

Sat 15 Feb 2020 7.00pm - 9.00pm Premiere

Tickets

 

Special thanks to Susie Thomson, The Northwood Charitable Trust and The Garrick Charitable Trust.

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​all photos by Kevin Leighton