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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.
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.
Like nothing else I've experienced. Absolutely amazing!"
StAudience member, Thornham, Suffolk.
"Strange, different, haunting, perspective challenging
Audience member, Thornham, Suffolk.
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
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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