Wrapped in Colour

Wrapped in Colour-first mix by tomcook

spent last week commuting to london to create this piece for a kids show 'Wrapped in Colour'. The show was devised/directed/created by Becci Kenning from work she has done over the last few years exploring colour and emotion with young children and young people. I had know idea what it was going to be, so arrived in london with a suitcase full of odd instruments and a laptop, we spent the first 2 days building a giant tentlike space in the unicorn theatre, then i spent 4 hours writing the soundtrack, and then we had a day and a half to build the show, trimming things, adding more sounds and words etc, the soundtrack had live vocal improvisations by the wondefully unrestrained Marika Rauscher, was performed by Becci Kenning and the profoundly funny Paul Engers and was lit by an extremely clever and comic Louise Mothersole. It was a week to never forget and it was nice not to be the only person who talks before thinking, none of us have an inner censor and its amazing we made akids show atall, as we had alot of fun. I must also thank my commuting trainer Katie Windsor who took the full brunt of my reaction to the quiet and unchirpy world of commuting, i think she will be so relieved next week when i do not get on her train. I will post some photos soon of the show.

I built the piece in ableton using about 40 audio tracks and over 100 scenes in the clipview, we could then jam the show until it felt right and then i recorded the piece as a set time line, it was amazing to be so flexible, i think ableton is amazing for that, i would love to build the piece so that the children could trigger the chances in ableton so they could explore and direct the show as they wished. TC