Greetings from chrysalises past 🦋
A year ago, I made a piece called ‘The Butterfly Effect’ responding to
@odartsfest ’s provocation ‘Thinking In Circles’. On May 23, I’ll be performing it again, a year on, at
@goodwoodartfoundation .
I’ll be opening for
@nabihahiqbal , who’ll be sharing her new composition ‘Imagined, Eternal’ with
@manchestercollective , with site-specific visuals by
@daisy_dickinson_films .
Set to be a v gorgeous time on the South Downs!
Tickets via
@goodwoodartfoundation
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The Butterfly Effect came from watching the movement of butterflies among the lilac in our old garden, alone, in relation. I was reading about Chaos Theory at the time, ie incremental changes to seemingly repeating patterns over time = eventually vastly different outcomes. The Lorenz Attractor diagrams I began to find mirrored the drawings I’ve meditated over in my sketchbooks for years, concentric lines moving incrementally outward. I think of these lines as layers of memory that slowly reveal form, a visualisation of selfhood as a culmination of experience over time. When ‘Thinking in Circles’, each cycle isn’t an exact repetition, but more an expanding set of tree rings, a deviation from a reference point; a regeneration through the act of remembering.
Musically, I’ve been drawn to minimalism since hearing Reich in my early teens. Just like Chaos, minimalism is a dance of sensitivity. From a playing / singing perspective, I love the feeling of attempting to repeat something with precision, for it to be organically changed, incrementally, through subtle human error… then allowing that change to guide the next decision, again and again, towards the shape that is to be revealed.
V much looking forward to finding this piece’s next evolution, while the lilacs are popping again.
T
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@betholenahan 
