HANDS ON! Catherine Laws with Teresa Brayshaw
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I don’t think we pay enough attention to touch in music: to how sound feels, through touch.
Hands On is a playful piano performance all about touch: the important nuances of touch, especially for the wonderful resonances of piano music, but also for how playing and listening to music touches us.
I know the air is being touched by the sound, and the sound is touching the palms and the fingers
Devised and performed by pianist Catherine Laws, with theatre maker Teresa Brayshaw and composers Damien Harron, Jenn Kirby, and Lynette Quek. With additional music by Ruth Crawford Seeger.
Sometimes I see her reaching for the place that will interfere,
or the place that will resonate,
or the place that will vibrate.
Eyes closed; hearing through touch.
Image credit: Minyung Im
About the performers
Teresa Brayshaw is a theatre maker, writer, creativity coach and Feldenkrais practitioner. She lectures in contemporary performance at numerous University and Drama Schools in the UK and has worked extensively in the Higher Education and European Theatre School sectors over the last 35 years. She works as a director, performer, and collaborator across a number of international, EU funded, interdisciplinary and intergenerational performance projects.
Catherine Laws is a Professor of Music at the University of York. A musicologist and pianist specialising in contemporary music, Catherine performs and records regularly, often working closely with composers, theatre makers, and audiovisual artists to create theatrical, multimedia piano performances. Catherine leads the research project ‘Musical Touch and Vicarious Perception’, while other research focuses on the body and identity in musical performance. Recent projects include her solo multimedia performance piece, Player Piano, a series of ‘piano films’ developed with film-maker Minyung Im, and the publication Voices, Bodies, Practices: Performing Musical Subjectivities (Leuven University Press, 2020).
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