Sarah Westwood
Sarah Westwood
I use memory and intuition as a source for my music, and am drawn toward mixed media/interdisciplinary projects, for dance, video, theatre, installation or concert works. I make both acoustic and electronic music, sometimes incorporating found objects and sounds. In my current research practice, I use the memory of composing for dance as a compositional process. This feedback results in a memory of a memory for new compositions ...
Sarah Westwood
composer//sound artist//musician
I use memory and intuition as a source for my music, and am drawn toward mixed media/interdisciplinary projects, for dance, video, theatre, installation or concert works. I make both acoustic and electronic music, sometimes incorporating found objects and sounds. In my current research practice, I use the memory of composing for dance as a compositional process. This feedback results in a memory of a memory for new compositions ...
Sarah Westwood
composer//sound artist//musician
Play Dough
Collaborating with choreographer Mbulelo Ndabeni at Phoenix Dance Theatre's Choreographers and Composers Lab 2015.
Phoenix Dance Theatre, based in Leeds, is one of Britain’s leading contemporary dance 5 companies. The company hosts an inaugural Choreographers and Composers Lab in the summer; a two week intensive in their dance centre in Leeds. Designed for professional choreographers and composers at an early stage of their career, the course offers a rare opportunity to focus on the creative process of research and experimentation with the emphasis on composition in music and dance.
Performances:
with choreographer Mbulelo Ndabeni and Phoenix Dance Theatre
WP: 24/07/15 Becky Yen-Huan Wang (flute) and Sean Hamilton (percussion) with PDT dancer’s at Phoenix Dance Theatre, Leeds
Still taken from Play Dough rehearsal video @ Phoenix Dance Theatre (23/07/15)
