PLAYBOOK is an interactive, immersive experiment with improvised
sound and text. It is a performance structured to involve audience input:
4 sets of vintage encyclopedias are distributed around the room and
spectators are invited to look through the books, select a short piece,
and bring it to the reader. The text is then deconstructed and
incorporated into the sonic material produced by the musicians, to
create a web of sounds, words and rhythms played through an 8-channel
immersive sound system. PLAYBOOK is an oblique exploration of what, how
and why we archive knowledge - and what we do with all the data.
PLAYBOOK was originally conceptualized by a group of local musicians and artists– Eliseo Santillan, Jessie Rivest, Andrew Stauffer, Neil Cadger –for the Kelowna downtown library during Nuit Blanche 2023. In collaboration with Miles Throrogood and Christopher Anderson, it has evolved into a larger spatialized audio work presented with an
8-channel, circular immersive sound system from SPIRAL at UBC
Okanagan. Live inputs from musicians and vocalists are transformed into
sonic textures, enveloping the audience in an immersive tapestry.
PLAYBOOK
artists: Andrew Stauffer (percussion), Darren Williams (saxophone),
Jessie Rivest (voice), Miles Thorogood (musician/audio engineer), Christopher Anderson (musician/audio engineer), Eliseo Santillan (Piano and
soundscape), and Neil Cadger (text).
It was most recently performed as part of the Living Things Festival at the Kelowna Community Theatre on January 27th 2024.
