The sounds of ceramics at performance-installation Moon Bells / Symbiotic, June 12 at the Annex
Artist-musician Roxanne Nesbitt plays her dangling sound panels in a Vancouver New Music show that is part installation, part performance
Photos by Andi McLeish
Vancouver New Music presents Moon Bells/Symbiotic at the Annex on June 12 at 8 pm; artist talk at 7:15 pm
JUST WHAT ARE the intriguing instruments that artist-musician Roxanne Nesbitt calls “moon bells”?
Warped through the ceramic process in a kiln, they’re translucent resonant panels that hang and spin.
Audiences will get the chance to hear their resonant magic—the sounds of ceramics—at Moon Bells / Symbiotic, as Nesbitt explores sonic timbre and texture through her handmade ceramic percussion and altered instruments.
Call it surround sound: part installation, part performance, the Vancouver New Music presentation will invite audience members to enter into a space shaped by these ethereal suspended ceramic sculptural pieces.
It’s all part of Nesbitt’s larger investigation of radical instrument design, composition, improvisation, and participatory sound installation. The Vancouver artist was trained as an architect and orchestral contrabassist, and has performed compositions across Canada and Europe.
The concert-meets-artwork features Nesbitt performing ceramics and piano, with percussion innovator Ben Brown on ceramics and Parmela Attariwala on viola.
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