REVIEW – TAIKOZ PRESENTS ORIGIN OF O

The notion of roots and origins remain important to many transplanted musical traditions. TaikOz continues to develop a reorientation of the ancient big drumming practices of Japan, Wadaiko, with a contemporary Australian quality that has come to envelop global influences reaching out to form something new.

There is an overlapping position within Origin of O, which places the holistic performance as spiritual first and origin later. Described as being a harmonious collaboration with the hi-tech and uber-organic, media artist Tokyo Love-In’s computer generated designs, abstract shapes and constructions project enhanced feelings of suburban life. These eight evocations of memories of youth and earlier freedoms were mixed with dance and samples of synthesised beats and basslines. The audience were engaged in a sense of play with the use of a bicycle as instrument. Once set in motion, Tom Royce and Anton Lock pulsated the air with waves that took up the altered atmosphere we breathed. The air itself is a vast library with the latest polyrhythmic beats in The For. (AS)

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BY ANGELA STRETCH