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People Like Us (Vicki Bennett) b. 1967
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Notations Documentary Travelogue (2013)
Duration 64'55" minutes

Vicki Bennett’s film-collage-as-visual-score Notations is created from hundreds of different film clips, where the content conceptually or literally portrays different kinds of instructions to be read by the improvising artists on stage as a visual score. The film/performance toured the UK in November 2013. This marks a return to working with improvised audio and video, both on radio and in front of an audience. Between 1996-2003 Vicki performed both solo and in collaboration with. amongst others, Jon Leidecker (Wobbly), Matt Wand (Stock, Hausen & Walkman), Matmos, members of Negativland and Kenneth Goldsmith.

To soundtrack Notations, each show featured a different combination of artists: Bill Orcutt, Rhodri Davies, M.C. Schmidt (Matmos), Philip Jeck, Jaap Blonk, Steve Noble, Wobbly, Mark Sanders, Tomomi Adachi and Jennifer Walshe.

NEWCASTLE Star & Shadow - BILL ORCUTT / RHODRI DAVIES / MARK SANDERS
MANCHESTER Kraak - M.C. SCHMIDT / WOBBLY / JENNIFER WALSHE
LEEDS Hyde Park Cinema (Leeds International Film Festival) - M.C. SCHMIDT / WOBBLY / TOMOMI ADACHI
LONDON Cafe Oto - JAAP BLONK / PHILIP JECK
BRISTOL Arnolfini - JAAP BLONK / PHILIP JECK / STEVE NOBLE

Each event begun with an a/v performance by People Like Us of "Consequences (One Thing Leads To Another)", which places similar subject matter side by side to construct the narrative, a story emerging as a sum of the preceding parts yet digressing on a tangent.

Notations UK Tour was produced by Tusk and commissioned by Sound and Music as part of their Touring Programme for 2013. Many thanks to Ilan Volkov for encouraging (and premiering) this project at Tectonics, Reykjavik.

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