SAVED - touring VERY SOON!
SAVED is a multi-layered, poly-rhythmic, retro-mechanical piece of music-theatre examining our relationship with music technology over time. It is built from rescued 70s and 80s music technology that has been re-configured, re-aligned and re-mixed into a hypnotic yet dynamic and magical world. It offers a sonic gateway that gently leads the listener to another reality - a world where the mundane is suddenly beautiful, surprising and full of new possibilities.
Did you get milk?
It’s green bin tonight.
Would you like to go for a drive tomorrow?
Work is continuing on the show with more UK previews scheduled in October and November 2019, and an Australian preview in January 2020 in Girgarre. Please subscribe to my website news if you would like to receive updates and info about SAVED.
Did you get milk?
It’s green bin tonight.
Would you like to go for a drive tomorrow?
Work is continuing on the show with more UK previews scheduled in October and November 2019, and an Australian preview in January 2020 in Girgarre. Please subscribe to my website news if you would like to receive updates and info about SAVED.
SAVED promo video, using text and images from the original Yamaha sales brochures (click for video credits)
VOICE: Helen Gregg
MUSIC: Graeme Leak
CAMERA: Graeme Leak and Hazel Palmer
TEXT: Yamaha Electone sales brochure (1981)
ILLUSTRATIONS: Yamaha Electone sales brochure (1981 - no artist or illustrator credit available)
MUSIC: Graeme Leak
CAMERA: Graeme Leak and Hazel Palmer
TEXT: Yamaha Electone sales brochure (1981)
ILLUSTRATIONS: Yamaha Electone sales brochure (1981 - no artist or illustrator credit available)
The 1968 Yamaha Electone C-55N home organ (pictured above and below) sold for £1,990. Graeme bought one for £7.50 from Mark in Northumberland.
It is 50 years old and still works perfectly. Why has it lost all value in today’s world? Will our laptops, tablets and phones still be working in 50 years?
Music is created with the popular and available music technology of the day. ALL instruments (violins, bassoons, synthesisers, computers) are pieces of music technology. Some have a longer shelf-life. SAVED takes us back to a 70s analogue era where buttons like ‘A-B-C Fun Block’ and ‘One Finger Chord’ captured our imagination. Such innovations promised to ‘make any beginner sound like a professional from the very first day’.
‘funny, skilful, engaging, tense, inventive and dynamic’ - Graham Rose, Director, Glasgow Science Centre
It is 50 years old and still works perfectly. Why has it lost all value in today’s world? Will our laptops, tablets and phones still be working in 50 years?
Music is created with the popular and available music technology of the day. ALL instruments (violins, bassoons, synthesisers, computers) are pieces of music technology. Some have a longer shelf-life. SAVED takes us back to a 70s analogue era where buttons like ‘A-B-C Fun Block’ and ‘One Finger Chord’ captured our imagination. Such innovations promised to ‘make any beginner sound like a professional from the very first day’.
‘funny, skilful, engaging, tense, inventive and dynamic’ - Graham Rose, Director, Glasgow Science Centre
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