Kima at the Roundhouse

KIMA invites you to create a composition of
sound and light collectively in an open circular space
of the Curtain Call at the Roundhouse.

Analema Group will explore architecture and acoustics of the Curtain Call through an interactive multi-channel sound and video installation. Curtain Call is large scale immersive installation created by architect Ron Arad in the main space of the Roundhouse, inviting music and visual artists throughout August to interpret the 360-degree canvas through art and music.

Inspired by the space and original poetry, a vocal ensemble will create unique sonic worlds echoing different states of the mind. The idea of stage, of duality between performer and audience is dissolved as performers play among the audience, inviting them to step into these musical worlds.

Participants are invited to visually discover characteristics of the sounds they create. Using immediate visual cues as a graphic score, the audience weaves its own music into the overall fabric of the performance. The performance will be based on a poem ‘Wheel’, written by Evgenia Emets especially for the occasion.

Sounds will form geometric representations, resulting in an ever changing array of visual explorations as a continuously moving, meditative experience. This visual representation, developed jointly by Paulo Ricca and Dario Villanueva Ablanedo, is interpreting sound analysis by Sean Soraghan on the Curtain Call, enhanced by original sound design created by Alain Renaud. These combined vocal expressions accumulate into a complex sonic and visual composition.