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Matthew Saladin Adjusts a movement sensor in Tramway's studio space

Noises Off

Noises Off

A kind of performed installation of searing noise and silence, where we’re not sure who the performer is, (Matthieu, you, someone else?), or when it starts or ends (when you come in, when you leave) or even who it’s for.

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What we wrote at the time: Who: French improviser, composer, writer & musical thinker of dry humour and elegant clarity. Sly conjurer of music from the unconsidered processes of music making.

Why: Matthieu said to us in an email: “Well, the project is quite simple, but all my projects are simple…” Indeed. But they also make clear the assumptions we all make about what counts as a performance, or as music at all, when in fact no such rules exist, only those assumptions. So in that way, they’re not so simple after all.

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7 images, 1 video
An audience member sits on the floor in a white room with a speaker in the back

▴ Credit: Alex Woodward

An audience member stands and listens in a room with others and speakers

▴ Credit: Alex Woodward

An audience member in a black jacket in a white room has their eyes closed

▴ Credit: Alex Woodward

An audience member in a beige jacket smiles in front of a white brick wall

▴ Credit: Alex Woodward

An audience member in a green top holding a programme looks over their shoulder

▴ Credit: Alex Woodward

A Yamaha speaker in the foreground, and blurred audience member behind

▴ Credit: Alex Woodward

Matthew Saladin reaches to a wall sensor to adjust it

▴ Credit: Alex Woodward

An audience member sits on the floor in a white room with a speaker in the back

▴ Credit: Alex Woodward

An audience member stands and listens in a room with others and speakers

▴ Credit: Alex Woodward

An audience member in a black jacket in a white room has their eyes closed

▴ Credit: Alex Woodward

An audience member in a beige jacket smiles in front of a white brick wall

▴ Credit: Alex Woodward

An audience member in a green top holding a programme looks over their shoulder

▴ Credit: Alex Woodward

A Yamaha speaker in the foreground, and blurred audience member behind

▴ Credit: Alex Woodward

Matthew Saladin reaches to a wall sensor to adjust it

▴ Credit: Alex Woodward

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