7pm at Dunedin Public Art Gallery
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7pm at Common Room, The Arts Centre
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7pm at Pyramid Club
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7pm at Tauranga Art Gallery
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6:45pm at Vault, Q Theatre
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Sit, Sit is a one-hour show of everyday actions framed as music. We have curated an evening of performances by composers from around the world, plus a new piece made by us, Second Company.
From the rhythmicised, highly tactile, gestural elements of Winnie Huang's Tentacles, to James O'Callaghan's ode to books, a "proposition" by Alison Knowles, and Marcus Jackson's employment of the seemingly obnoxious referee's whistle as an expression of detailed beauty and careful delicacy, Sit, Sit is a show that contemplates the banal and uncovers delight.
In our own work, co-created through casual and philosophical conversation, interrogatory devising methods, and rigorous, detailed composition, we involve speech/song, movement/dance, gesture/theatre as musical materiality, and explore concepts of distance and communication. Comprised of various attempts to bridge a distance, our efforts will be clear: between us is a horizon, and this is the music of that horizon.
We formed Second Company to provide a platform for post-instrumental music and composed theatre in Aotearoa, and hope you enjoy this first offering!
Second Company is an exploratory music duo. Antonia Barnett-McIntosh and Elliot Vaughan are composer-performers based in Aotearoa who seek out experimental, collaborative creation. The project arose out of conversations while working in parallel on Wild Fabrics (Antonia) and First Buzzard at the Body (Elliot), a pair of long-form solos for Ōtautahi Tiny Fest 2021.
Second Company is a vehicle for the digital and performance pieces they make together, for presenting music by other composers working in the post-instrumental and composed theatre fields, and for serving as a platform which contributes to the wider discourse of music in Aotearoa. Second Company aspires to operate sustainably and make their output accessible.
Second Company. Imperfect, but not imperfect enough to discard.
Second Company. Without the burden of being first choice.
Second Company. Marking time together.