An expansive, haunting magnum-of-a-performance, John Luther Adam’s live presentation of Inuksuit can only allude to the sublime. A participatory mashup that elegantly transcends the boundaries of performance, concert, art and music, it represents, more than anything, a record of space and time- an awakening of sorts. At once eerie and beatific, disturbing and meditative, the swirls and clanks of noise and sound coagulates, penetrates and disperses- creating the very substance of magic that the composer embodies. Rounding up a total of 87 musicians and exploiting the open space of the Armoury, it’s beauty lies within its lack of structure and poetic blend of so many things.
The title refers to a type of stone marker that the Inuit and other native peoples use to orient themselves in Arctic spaces.
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