ARTiST: Scott Walker
ALBUM: And Who Shall Go To The Ball? And Who Shall Go To The Ball?
BiTRATE: 170kbps avg
QUALiTY: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.97 Final / -V2 --vbr-new / 44.100Khz
LABEL: 4AD
GENRE: Instrumental
SiZE: 31.61 megs
PLAYTiME: 0h 24min 39sec total
RiP DATE: 2007-10-05
STORE DATE: 2007-10-08
Track List:
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01. Part One 6:36
02. Part Two 5:29
03. Part Three 6:24
04. Part Four 6:10
Release Notes:
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In 2006, Scott Walker confirmed his position as one of the most singular talents
working in any field of the arts by releasing the incomparable album, The Drift.
Later that year, Scott was commissioned by LondonÆs South Bank Centre to write
music for a contemporary dance piece. He immediately started work, and the
completed score was recorded in the Spring of 2007.
Entitled And Who Shall Go To The Ball? And What Shall Go To The Ball?, the
entirely instrumental composition is made up of four movements with a total
running time of 25 minutes.
Scott has this to say about the music : ôApart from a slow movement given over
to solitude, the music is full of edgy and staccato shapes or cuts, reflecting
how we cut up the world around us as a consequence of the shape of our bodies.
How much of a body does an intelligence need to be potentially socialised in an
age of ever-developing AI ? This is but one of many questions that informed the
approach to the project.ö
When the music was completed, it was given to choreographer Rafael Bonachela and
a dance company called Candoco, whose ranks include both able-bodied and
disabled dancers. With production and lighting design also influenced by ScottÆs
approach to the project, the first public performance took place at the Contact
Theatre in Manchester on April 26th.
Since then, the company have toured the piece around Europe to much acclaim, and
in September they return to the UK to perform at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in
London for two nights before going nationwide.