How Relay works:
There are 15 musicians in total, and 3 performance spaces. It begins with a trio in each performance space (9 musicians) who improvise with each other until one of the remaining 6 musicians walks into their space. The new arrival displaces one of the players, who then sets off to another space. This system creates a kaleidoscope of musical combinations over 3 hours.
The event is not something which audiences sit down to and experience as they would a conventional concert. It usually takes place in the daytime, in public spaces, and listeners find different ways to access the performances: some do in fact stay in one place and allow the groupings to unfold before them; some choose one musician and follow him or her; others move about from space to space frustrated that they can't be in all three at once, always missing something, always catching something else.
There are 15 musicians in total, and 3 performance spaces. It begins with a trio in each performance space (9 musicians) who improvise with each other until one of the remaining 6 musicians walks into their space. The new arrival displaces one of the players, who then sets off to another space. This system creates a kaleidoscope of musical combinations over 3 hours.
The event is not something which audiences sit down to and experience as they would a conventional concert. It usually takes place in the daytime, in public spaces, and listeners find different ways to access the performances: some do in fact stay in one place and allow the groupings to unfold before them; some choose one musician and follow him or her; others move about from space to space frustrated that they can't be in all three at once, always missing something, always catching something else.
RELAY 2022
SELF-PORTRAITS by the Participants:
Photographs by Sean Kelly
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Photographs by Nicola Woodham
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