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T A C T I L E
Tactile Ensemble explore unsighted musical creativities We work under blindfold and perform in blacked out spaces.
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The band devise music through improvisation, employing tactile backbone scores and aural cues to create musical architecture.
Tactile scores by Jackie Walduck
Shoreline (2015): composed for Tactile
shoreline with Adrian Lee and James Risdon
White Oak Variations (2018): composed for Ludi Kernow Guitar Quartet; also performed by Tactile
The music was beautiful,intricate and layered, and the experience of listening in the dark gave it a crackling, visceral quality.
Audience member, Vortex.
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Like nothing else I've experienced. Absolutely amazing!"
StAudience member, Thornham, Suffolk.
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"Strange, different, haunting, perspective challenging
Audience member, Thornham, Suffolk.
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Tactile performances include interactive elements that induct the audience into an unsighted environment, in which other senses come to the fore: tactile, aural, spatial and proprioceptive
Sensing Nature
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Sensing Nature (2017) was a site-specific piece created in collaboration with Waveney and Blyth Arts. Tactile composers Jackie Walduck and Adrian Lee created a sound trail around the site, based on the sounds of indigenous species: crickets, grasshoppers, weasels, bats, chaffinches, cuckoos, blue tits, great tits and wrens. A blindfold audience was led around the site to experience music in varied habitats.
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