The Dancing Pig

narrator, gamelan ensemble and live electronics | 2001 | with Mark Lockett

Shortly after arriving in Birmingham I was involved in the realisation of The Dancing Pig, in collaboration with Mark Lockett, a wonderfully polymorphous musician, and Roy Kwabena, then Birmingham’s poet laureate, and a brilliant story-teller originally from Trinidad.

The Dancing Pig is an Indonesian story about two curious children and a witch. I worked on a live electronics setup to transform Roy’s narrating voice and some of the gamelan instruments, to give the story and the music an eerie, outworldly quality.

First performance
Roy Kwabena, narrator, and Birmingham Conservatoire's Gamelan Ensemble | 2001 | New Lecture Theatre, Birmingham Conservatoire