First Buzzard at the Body
By Elliot Vaughan
An experimental vocal and musical performance about death, capitalism, and birds.
When: 6:30pm, 16–17 September
Where: The Stage, BATS Theatre, 1 Kent Tce (wheelchair accessible)
Cost: $22 · $20 · $18
Circle in for an experimental evening of music and poetry about death, capitalism and ornithology.
A setlist of poetic texts are subjected to transformative compositional processes, gutting them of meaning or stumbling through the banal into the sublime. The raw material of the poems is musicalised through cassette loops and digital looper, song, screen, cunning use of microphones, and Elliot’s dynamic, embodied delivery.
Stylistically, the show draws on 70’s sound poetry like Canada’s Four Horsemen, 60’s minimalist composition such as Steve Reich’s phase pieces, the immediacy of punk and stand-up comedy, and the sprawling romance of the natural soundscape.
The Stage is wheelchair accessible. For full details about accessibility at BATS, go to bats.co.nz/about-bats/accessibility
“Things morph, amplify, distort in delightfully unexpected ways… in a chain reaction of events meticulously mapped out like a more virtuosic Water Walk by John Cage or [...] a Rube Goldberg contraption the ingenuity is hilarious.”
Kosta Bogoievski, Theatreview, 2021
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Image Description: Performer Elliot Vaughan stands front on with his arms raised above his head holding a tiny pink radio about the size of one hand. He’s looking up at it with his mouth wide open as if making a battle cry. His shirt is a bright green button-up and has images of birds on it.
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