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Saxophonist Tommy Smith and Edinburgh-based Russian
artist Maria Rud unite to present Luminescence in St Giles’ Cathedral in
Edinburgh on Friday 18th November.
A new project bringing together aural and visual
improvisation, Luminescence will be created spontaneously in front of the
audience as Smith and Rud respond to each other’s ideas and interact with the
architecture and acoustics of the twelfth century cathedral.
“Images come to me with music,” says Rud, who has collaborated in the past with percussion virtuoso Evelyn Glennie and the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra. “It is not a single image or a collection of images, but a live "storyboard" in which music plays the role of a script.”
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“This gives Luminescence a unique quality as by
projecting art onto a particular building’s architecture we can never create
the same show twice,” says Rud.
Rud and Smith met at a reception in the National
Museum of Scotland and after conversing for a few minutes they agreed that they
should work together at some point. They first collaborated when Smith, the
founding director of the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra, invited Rud to
create images in response to the Orchestra’s dedications to saxophone pioneers
including Albert Ayler and Ornette Coleman in their Where Rivers Meet concert
series in May 2021.
“These were arranged suites and the performance had
to be streamed as we were still under Covid regulations,” says Smith. “So,
although there was improvisation in Where Rivers Meet, Luminescence will be
quite a different experience as Maria and I will both be starting with a blank
canvas, as it were. We’ll also have the added inspiration of working in front
of a live audience.”
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