REALMS
Realm of Tensors and Spruce is a new music project created and performed by Lucy Strauss. The project explores and extends the sonic possibilities of the viola with live acoustic playing and electroacoustics. With this palette of practices, she builds and transforms soundworlds entirely from viola audio. The resulting performance melds between improvised and composed structures.
Realms: an allusion to Lucy's compositional approach of building soundworlds.
Realms: an allusion to Lucy's compositional approach of building soundworlds.
@ Theatre Arts, Cape Town:
15 December 2024
For this show, I presented this work first in a performance setting, then as an interactive sound installation using a game controller to afford audience members the chance to explore and influence a soundworld generated in real-time.
@ Pony Books, Gothenburg:
11 October 2024
I performed an early version of Realms at Pony Books, a multi-lingual queer & arts bookshop and member space in Gothenburg, Sweden. The concert began at dusk on an Autumn Friday evening. I played the set, then we held a Q&A session.
The elevator pitch for this project is that every single sound comes from the live viola, from the acoustic sounds in the concert space, to electroacoustic process.
The promotional material for the Pony Books concert. Aside from the usual digital places, the concert information was shared on an actual piece of paper for people to find in the bookshop leading up to the event.![]()
