Sunday 13 February 2022, 2pm
This suite was written between 2009-2010, after an unexpected improvisation took place between myself and an autistic man I was working with, who was labelled as ‘non-verbal and displaying “challenging behaviour” - I was improvising on the piano one day, when ‘Richard’ surprisingly spoke and uttered in time over the music, this event deeply moved me, helping me realise that a bridge could be created beyond the artificial boundaries that separate us all, leading me to develop a style, more in tune with our natural, unmanufactured voice, the voice we all have, which hasn’t been structured in a form to make it fit in with societal expectations, the voice of the child within, which has no concept of the world it inhabits, nor any means to navigate that world.
I will be playing the piano and joined by a string trio for this performance
- W.P.
Delmer Darion is the West Midlands-born and North London-based experimental electronic/ IDM project of Tom Lenton and Oliver Jack, taking its name from the deep-sea diver found at the top of a charred tree after a forest fire in Paul Thomas Anderson’s cult film ‘Magnolia’.
Their debut album ‘Morning Pageants’ has been five-years in the making: a sprawling, industrial ten-track account of the death of the devil as a tragedy for the imagination, inspired by a line in the Wallace Stevens poem ‘Esthétique du Mal’, due for release this October on Practise Music (Squid, Shards, William Doyle).
