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Nature, Industry, Ritual (2017), 13:00 Third Coast Performing Nature, Industry, Ritual in Chicago For the production of sound in this work, each performer focuses on a steel bucket filled with water, and a copper plumbing pipe. Beyond the sounds that can be coaxed out of these objects, I was also influenced by the choreography, pacing, and visual universe of chādo, or Japanese tea ceremony. From the work’s program note: “In the production of ceremony-grade matcha, dried tencha tea leaves are carefully hand-ground with an ishi-usu, a circular, granite mill etched with a pattern grooves specifically designed to produce the desired consistency of powder. When properly prepared according to chādo, or “the way of tea,” matcha is very similar in color to various species of lemnodiae, a subfamily of green algae that is common in slow-moving or still bodies of water throughout the world.” |