Cooper, Clare: Clare Cooper

Cooper, Clare: Clare Cooper

Title Clare Cooper
Type Music, Concert
Date 9 October 2007
Venue Cankarjev dom, Kosovelova dvorana
City of production Ljubljana, Slovenia
Production City of Women
Co-production AKC Metelkova mesto
Format 720x576 pxl
Duration 39' 13"
URL Mesto žensk
Registration number CoW-2007--161

Synopsis

 

Serious music and humour? Clare Cooper, a harpist from Sydney, Australia, combines the seemingly incompatible with a fair degree of humour. Free of classical moulds and infused with imagination, courage and beauty. The range of musical nuance extend from dramatically sonorous fields skipping to subtle scattered vibrations, crashes and other sudden shifts, in the context of solo recital and steady resonant textures. And all of this reveals a new and unique approach to the harp and the guzheng, a traditional Chinese harp. Clare Cooper is attracted to the research and exploration of new techniques and expressions that these stringed instruments have to offer, thus by way of stoppers, forks, cups,bowls, bells as well as other meta-instruments she combines them in imaginative (dis)harmonies of sound. »Amazing, subtly brain-dazzling set of improvisation across the harp and guzheng from this Australian light bulb. Not often you hear a voice as startlingly new as this.« (C. Spencer Yeh, Volcanic Tongue 2006)

 

Source: City of Women

Artist, artistic group

Production

Co-production

AKC Metelkova mesto

Selection