Chris Swithinbank

local bond is the first in a se­ries of works that ex­plore phys­i­cal con­nec­tions and shared spaces be­tween per­form­ers as the key de­ter­min­ing fac­tor for the work’s ma­te­r­ial and en­vi­ron­ment. The un­sta­ble space gen­er­ated by a fluid in­stru­men­tal ap­pa­ra­tus in com­bi­na­tion with the per­form­ers’ ac­tions calls for a re­liance upon and re­spon­sive­ness to not just the other per­form­ers, but the in­stru­men­tal as­sem­blage as a whole.

Writ­ten for Stony Brook Uni­ver­sity’s ‘Pre­mieres!’ con­cert, local bond’s first per­for­mance was by the uni­ver­sity’s Con­tem­po­rary Cham­ber Play­ers under the di­rec­tion of Ed­uardo Le­an­dro.