Chain of Circumstances
Complete Work Title:
Chain of Circumstances
Performance Medium:
Screendance (video with stereo audio)
Duration:
10:00 / 12:45
Date Composed:
September – October 2020
Dedication:
To Richard Shuster and Jordan Fuchs
Additional Information:
- Multiple versions of this screendance are available, in durations of 10:00 and 12:45, both of which include versions with or without computer music.
- This work may also be presented in a live version for solo or duo piano, with optional dancer, interactive computer music, and/or intermedia.
- Featured project in Fulbright Reunion Exhibition (2022).
Recordings:
Original screendance version (without electronics), featuring pianist Richard Shuster and dancer/choreographer Jordan Fuchs, with lighting design by Dayna Ballenger and videography by Danielle Willis.
Recuced screendance version (with electronics),featuring pianist Richard Shuster and dancer/choreographer Jordan Fuchs, with lighting design by Dayna Ballenger and videography by Danielle Willis.
Screendance version featuring pianist and dancer Sára Medková, with choreography by David Strnad and videography by Julián Veverica and Lukáš Medek.
Program Note:
Chain of Circumstances, originally intended for live performance with piano, solo dancer, and interactive computer music, was reconceived as a screendance during the COVID-19 pandemic. Featured on this realization are pianist Richard Shuster and dancer/choreographer Jordan Fuchs, with lighting design by Dayna Ballenger and videography by Danielle Willis. The original version of this work explored aspects of recombinance, modularity, and non-linear musical structures, and was conceived as a series of disparate, distinctive, and relatively static musical states. In this screendance version, the pianist’s choices regarding the assemblage of musical modules served as an impetus for the dancer’s semi-improvised choreography, which in turn was filmed, then recontextualized and compiled into the present video by the composer.
Chain of Circumstances was supported by a grant from Texas Woman’s University, and was composed in February-March 2020 for pianist Richard Shuster and dancer/choreographer Jordan Fuchs. This screendance version was completed in October 2020.
Performance/Broadcast History:
Date | Venue | Location | Performer(s) |
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21 February 2024 | Texas Tech University—Electronic Nights Concert Series | Lubbock, TX | screendance |
9 November 2023 | State University of Paraná—International Symposium of New Music (SiMN 2023) | Curtitiba, Brazil | screendance |
27 October 2023 | University of North Georgia—7th annual Research on Contemporary Composition Conference | Dahlonega, GA | screendance |
4 June 2023 | Society of Composers, Inc. 2023 Online National Conference | online | screendance |
20 April 2023 | Community Arts Workshop, "A Night of Visual Music" | Santa Barbara, CA | screendance |
13 January 2023 | University of California Santa Barbara Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall—Visual Music Series program | Santa Barbara, CA | screendance |
30 December 2022 | Teatro del Fuoco—Resilience Festival of New Arts | Foggia, Italy | screendance |
10 March 2022 | Tempo Reale Lampi di Rete—online audiovisual marathon, sponsored by the International Confederation of Electroacoustic Music — CIME/ICME | Firenze, Italy | screendance |
5 March 2022 | Washington State University Kimbrough Concert Hall—2022 Festival of Contemporary Art Music | Pullman, WA | screendance |
20 November 2021 | Audiovisual Frontiers Virtual Exhibition at UC Riverside | Riverside, CA (online) | screendance |
19 November through5 December 2021 | FilmFest by Rogue Dancer: Dance NOIR Edition | online | screendance |
7 November 2020 | University of North Texas and live-streamed—Sonic Murals Festival | Denton, TX | screendance |