Brother Tree Sound
OPEN CHAMBER
Write Young Things Introducing Open Chamber
OPEN CHAMBER is a platform for both established and emerging composers and also for artists from other disciplines. Each event is carefully curated around a theme. By co-existing side by side in the same performance space, with a common theme binding these various art forms, the evening serves as a creative hub for audiences and performers of all genres explore and connect.
We are currently working around the theme 'Call & Response' for which we are asking people to explore their immediate reaction to a piece of music, visual art, written or spoken word. These responses are circulated to our audience with the idea that they propel the listener more immediately into the performance. Below you can read a response from Write Young Things, a collective of young women based in London who are exploring their writing with regular meetings to collaborate and inspire. Each response that was shared was so different, giving us many different entry points into our own listening.
Poetry response to MACHINE - Matt Collins by Holly Graham
Siren the discord
First low and long
A yawn of horror?
Eyes closed
Stretch it out
Elastic slow-mo
She draws
An achy unsheathing
Of muscle tension
Moving in increments
Minute.
To pull back
As if in dance
To arch and
Push off against cold concrete
In exaggerated gesture.
A leap, rather than a step.
And now in flight
Holding breath
Caught in the throat
A pause
Before the spell is dispelled
And gravity takes hold once more
Fluidity crumbles
In gurgled babble
Before the shift which startles
Conjures marvels
Before the trembles
The lactic acid shakes and spasms
The back and forth
The shake and shudder
Before time as is
As was
Now as we know it
In rush hour
Again
For hardened city dwellers
Scrub it back
Through gargle
And slow