Neil Luck: The Open Fund for Music Creators
For:
Herakles!
Event date:
10 May 2013
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Herakles! is a piece of music theatre, drawing together elements of avant-garde music, live art and experimental theatre.
Composed and performed by Neil Luck, and the experimental string ensemble ARCO, the piece is an interleaved and overlaid set of musical fragments, or ‘labours’, each comprising a musical-physical trial (be it one of dexterity, strength, precision) that undertaken by the performers.
Referencing an eclectic range of sources including contemporary classical music, magick rituals, concrete poetry, slapstick, free improvisation, Kabuki theatre and Broadway showstoppers, Herakles! is a culmination of Neil Luck’s ‘Notebook’ series; a collection of works of varying scale and media using as a basis, texts drawn from the notebooks of the avant-garde playwright, director and filmmaker Richard Foreman. Foreman’s often non-linear, absurd and multi-lateral texts serve as the basis for a similarly frenetic, and constantly shifting live performance.
Herakles! Is kindly supported by the PRSF, a Musicians Benevolent Fund Emerging Excellence award, and the Iris Theatre (production development support).