roxanne nesbitt

Mutual Instruments for Movement and Sound

2016

improvised sketch with ceder pitched sticks designed and made by Roxanne Nesbitt; movement and sound by Deanna Peters and Ben Brown; filmed by Sophia Wolfe at Stretch Yoga, Vancouver

Movement is motion is vibration is sound at another scale. I am interested in this space between gesture and sound.

This series of instruments for musicians and dancers explore ways of controlling pitch and timbre through movement. They are completely acoustic, employing archaic principles from idiophone instrument design to explore the connections between sound and motion.