Bel Canto

Tracery is an ongoing collaborative project between the composer and soprano Juliet Fraser. Based on a Deep Listening exercise, focusing on oral traditions and their vocal expression, the performers experiment with the limits of freedom and vulnerability on stage.
Bel Canto is based on a fragment of Puccini’s Vissi d’arte sung by Maria Callas, composed using Miller's method of taking parts of recordings, including found footage, and using them as structural seeds.
Traveller Song is a tour de force of the appropriation method: using manipulated recordings of the composer herself singing traditional Sicilian music from the collection of Alan Lomax, the processes of mixing, translating and transforming go far beyond the conventional concept of arranging or adapting music, to produce something that is quite radical and new.