Decomposing Bach – Terry Smith & Sacconi Quartet

This is the first stage of a collaborative project between the Sacconi Quartet and the artist Terry Smith. Uniquely the project is launched at the first meeting between the artist and the musicians.

They will be joined by Ian Dearden a composer and sound designer who has worked with Steve Reich, Stockhausen and for many music and performance projects worldwide. Ian has worked with Terry on a number of international performance works.

The idea is to make an open workshop where together they will play with ideas from Bach’s ‘Art of Fugue’ for a new performance project called ‘Decomposing Bach’. This will be the starting point for a future concert and live dance performance.

This is a special backstage pass for the audience who will be able to witness the very first stages of a project like this and see, from the very first moment, how it begins and develops… like seeing the first lines applied to a blank canvas.”

Terry Smith is an artist from London, now based in Folkestone’s Creative Quarter. Developing an impressive practice over forty years, Smith has been the recipient of acclaimed awards and fellowships – such as the Henry Moore Fellowship at the Byam Shaw School of Art, and receiving The Paul Hamlyn Artist Award in 2008.

Smith’s most recent work, Walk Stand Still, is a performance piece in development produced with performers, Ash McNaughton and Lise Boucon, composer, John Woolrich and jazz flutist, Paul Cheneour, at the Quarterhouse Auditorium, Folkestone.

Smith’s interests go beyond the making of art, as the founder, director, and curator of a range of contemporary, multimedia projects. He is active on many different platforms, including workinprogress, Strangelove Time-Based Media Festival , Venice Agendas, Casement Arts, Platform Art Projects