Raw

Raw is primarily based upon the collaborative works created by partners – composer John Cage and choreographer Merce Cunningham and their experiments based in chance and unpredictability. My aim within this project was to see how audio and dance communicate with one another. The audio was created using found footage of either Cunningham or Cage and then distorted through data-bending creating fragmented and distorted sound that was then collaged together. The choreography was improvised using the ancient Chinese divination text, the I-Ching, as a source of inspiration for each routine, a technique often utilised by Cage.