Miles Lukoszevieze
Sound artist and musician based in London
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Date: 9th May 2025
Duration: 22 minutes
Location: Chronic Illness, Holloway Road
Format: Live performance for viola, bass flute, and laptop with quadraphonic sound and lighting
Personnel: Harry Fisher, Travis Yu, Miles Lukoszevieze, performance assisted by Juna Lypenko
This piece engages with indeterminate structures and improvisation, questioning patterns and notions of memory through observing the performers responses to the recapitulation of their own musical phrases, recorded the day before. These phrases were played back into the space, manipulated and attenutated into sine tones and granular clouds, towing the line between familiarity and ambiguity. The result sees the performers, Harry Fisher (viola) and Travis Yu (bass flute), limited to their original phrases, responding “to themselves”.
The title ‘Locus’ refers to the definition of "a particular position or place where something occurs” . Each phrase was recorded twice, once close-mic’d and one where the performer played from a separate room, hearing more of the space itself. Later. The performers were directed to play their instruments moving, interacting with their acoustic field, as variations of their phrases are emitted back into the space and diffused through a quadraphonic setup. Underlying this piece is a question of the ‘locus of control’, relevant to the individual’s perception in the act of improvisation, in this case limiting them to set phrases. We consequently observe the tension between internal will and external forces as spectral variations of one’s own playing confront the performer in conversation.
Watch the full performance here
Listen to the recording here