In GRAFT, Current Resonance explores the buried musicality in repetitive labour, unleashes productivity anguish through choreographed facial expressions and the sounds of boredom and dread, engages in almost grotesque levels of instrumental and physical endurance, and grapples with automated versions of themselves who seem to effortlessly carry out labour without as much as breaking a sweat. How hard are the performers willing to work? What does their sustained effort sound like? What are they working towards and who benefits from their labour?

 

The group are joined by composer-performer Rob Durnin. About his newly commissioned work, ens ENS: "Responsive & sensitive multi-character compatible autonomous corpus; high fidelity orientation & superior permutant mono."

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In Current Resonance's reimagined version of Louis Andriessen's seminal 'Workers Union', we see automated, on-screen versions of the four performers rapidly cutting between video/sound samples of work-related actions, whilst the on-stage performers rest and recharge.

 

ℙ𝕣𝕠𝕘𝕣𝕒𝕞𝕞𝕖:

Rob Durnin - ens ENS - ‡

Yiran Zhao - Music Workout

Juta Pranulyte - F

Timothy Cape - sorry for the late reply

Matthew Grouse - GRAFT - †

Louis Andriessen - Workers Union

 

† world premiere

‡ world premiere - Current Resonance commission - supported by KODA Kultur

 

curation: Matthew Grouse

 

Performers: Current Resonance (Dylan Richards, Joss Smith, Matthew Grouse, Michael Hope) & guest performer Rob Durnin

 

This event was made possible with the generous support of KU.BE, William Demant Fonden, Hoffmann og Husmans fond, Frederiksberg Fonden, Frederiksberg Kommune, KODA Kultur and Knud Højgaards Fond

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Video documentation: Spektrals

Photos credits: Stills from Spektrals' video documentation