Unpredictable series presents “Papermaking Music’ conducted by Gino Robair featuring two sets where a small orchestra with Steve Beresford, Poulomi Desai, BeibeiWang, Charlotte Keeffe, Khabat Abbas, Gina Southgate, and Blanca Regina perform Robair’s genuine scores.
Gino Robair’s Radical Divination (2023) explores performance as a form of augury. During the event, two papermakers interact through game-based structures to create graphic scores interpreted by musicians using systems modelled after historical divination practices (which take into account multi-modal sensory input—sight, sound, texture). Interactive concepts embedded in the piece help create feedback paths and foster emergent properties that extend the score and shape the performance in organic, yet unpredictable ways.
In the second set, the musical ensemble will perform Robair’s The Amanuensis (2014), featuring artist Gina Southgate. In this work, specially prepared texts are filtered through the amanuensis, which captures spoken language as visual elements that influence ensemble improvisation.