Intervention

This Intervention traces, through email exchanges and blog correspondence, the evolution of a piece for percussion (surfaces) written by James Saunders for Simon Limbrick. The full piece is intended to last twenty-four hours in performance, and involves the sonic activation and exploration of a variety of materials by means of a whole array of techniques. The collaborative development of surfaces is documented in words and images over the ten months from first ideas to first performance, revealing the intertwining of material, conceptual, practical and aesthetic considerations in the creative process.