OUTDOOR SHOW: Twig Harper & J House

JAMES TWIG HARPER JOHNSTON
AN EVENING WITH TWIG HARPER
LIVE SEPTEMBER 2024 DIAGRAM AVAILABLE

Live sets in Jimmy Harper's world right now: How do you improvise with yourself? A system that takes what he gives it, and in return it guides the live operator on a middle road of control & chaos. Material is processed in a way that T. Harp understands, but since it is inherently designed to be a chaotic system James cannot control how the output is articulated. This nonlinear generative system is a live, unrepeatable happening. A virtual modular system of chained random generator modules, clocked, with a master logic behind it, issuing at random times. Moments of time move forward, back, from side to side, diagonally. A breakdown approach to recognizability.

Tweg, on this happening: “Me, my system, the output – the holy trinity. Since the pandemic started, I went from using physical objects to computer systems that could be trained. My whole MO has always been: How do I hack something to find the hidden system. The shift in thinking was: focus more on the compositional techniques so the effect of the chaos is more evident. Highlight the system – now, it's not so much about the larger pieces of recognizable music. It's about Irreproducible Activity, the nervous system getting blasted to another dimension. The experience of being thrown into a world where you don’t understand its logic.
Chaos is something baked in: a component. A feature, not a bug, and the antidote for the linear empire of infinite growth. The trickster module. To open up the portal. You think everything is this, laws & regulations, but there are moments that open up and break down.”

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