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POSTCARDS OF SOUND
But, as with any other journey undertaken, this trip comes to life not only through the route it takes, but from the picture postcards collected along the way. Evelyn's postcards from around the world enlighten and nourish the stdio journey.
Depicting the rhythms of cities, nature, people, the universe. Silence. Her postcards are colourful, evocative, with a strong sense of place and of narrative.
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Japan. England. California. Scotland. New York on a sunlit, early morning. The first traffic jams begin to form - yellow taxis become, from a bird's eye view, musical notes upon the score. Drivers curse, toot their horns, blare their music. Garbage trucks rumble and clatter, street cleaners sweep in unconscious rhythmn to their steps.
Enter Evelyn into this concert of awakening metropolis; her favorite snare drum hangs from her shoulder and she improvises with Manhattan. She communicates with the din of the construction, the cars, the facades, the yellow cabs. Later on she meets with Horazio Hernades, the great Cuban drum-magician, in Central Park. And the mass of multi-ethnic traditions of New York dances with us. |
Our road map and Evelyn's postcards elicit moments of pause and reflection. We see the images of sound. From the vibrating drum shell from the cymbal struck nearby, to the rings of gravel in the Japanese stone garden. Thses are the sound waves of the universe.
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At the end of this journey, we have traveled with Evelyn Glennie not just around the world but as she herself travels each day, feeling the rhythms that are the building blocks fo our universe, the essence of everything, the origins of life itself.
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