P r o g e t t o L a w r e n c e D . " B u t c h " M o r r i s
Lugo, Modena, Vignola, Santarcangelo, Parma
30>31 maggio, 21 giugno, 9>10 luglio 2009

un progetto di A n g e l i c A
e Regione Emilia-Romagna - Assessorato alla Cultura

Lawrence D. "Butch" Morris will give a workshop in Vignola with 11 musicians (some of them living in the region, others coming from other parts of Italy) who meet for the first time to explore new music under his guidance. The final result will be a gig at the Festival Jazz In It, in Vignola.
The musicians were chosen to form an ensemble that brings together elements of funk, R&B, jazz, world music and ethnic music, also in a quest to fulfill the demands of an audience that expexcts to find consolidated forms. Here, the form opens up to contain other, possibly new or hybrid, forms.

The Lawrence D. "Butch" Morris project goes on in another context: in Santarcangelo, at the International Festival of Open-air Theatre and the Teatro Due in Parma.
The strategies of music are applied to theatre, as actors are asked to turn into musicians.
A workshop with actors from theatre and film.
Chiara Guidi (Societas Raffaello Sanzio, and artistic director of the Santarcangelo Festival) has brought together an ensemble of actors with the most diverse background. Her selection of texts by Giovanni Pascoli boosts the project's interest and stimulates de-contextualization and re-interpretation.
Those three days, together with the final gig, will represent a constructive endeavour, whereby otherwise virtually unkown techniques from the world of theatre and cinema will be employed to shed some light on the role music can have in a concerted reading.

"CONDUCTION® No. 185, The Perfect Spirit" is the continuing search for the perfect nature of finding the collective/collaborative art form.
A way of finding the order and organization of truth, liberty and freedom in a constantly changing perspective.

The CHORUS OF POETS is a merciless union upon which the poet bargains the essence of real emotion for some moments of soulful existence, which is not always pleasant; but always real and immediate.
The perspective of the individual never seems far away; but in the context of this chorus; seems forever not the same, changed by the awareness of a collective consciousness in harmony.
Unique to the moment of occurrence, never again to be reproduced and instantly lost to the moments passed of spent last breath of poets, definitely more than acting and beyond performance.
The chorus touches upon the soul of a city and possesses its inhabitance with its awareness of the rawness of being a real person with real perspective; with a soul and knowledge of one's imperfect spirit lost in the monstrosity of man made hugeness. It is the liturgy of spoken word with the despair of modernity in the naked voice.
(Lawrence D. "Butch" Morris)

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