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Chaos Hands is a genre-bending, cross-media, improv trio comprising of: Allison Wright (electronics, AU), Nicole Patrick (drums, USA) & Xuan (visuals, USA). Their work meets at the intersection of acoustic drums, synthesizers and visual projections which interweave the worlds of techno, visual story-telling, and improvisation. There are sometimes tender moments of soothing color and sounds which transform into abrasive strobe-like musical and visual explorations. They lean in to the inherent infiniteness of their mediums and continue to traverse new territories with each work they produce.
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Sometimes it’s nice to lean on “How To” guides to trust we will learn necessary coping skills.
For instance,
How To Know How Tall You Are:
Do you look up to people?
Can you hear others when they share?
Have you noticed the sun today?
Or
How To Know What Kind of Fish You Are:
When swimming upstream, what speed do you swim in relation to your other fish friends?
Do you move closer or farther from the surface when a wave comes your way?
Can you recall where you found food yesterday?
If we had a “How To” guide for this last year, we may have learned how to capture, how to acknowledge, how to process what’s been going on. We sometimes wish that was the case. We’ve come together as Chaos Hands, guide-less, to create a work that exposes our isolation so we can acknowledge where we are.
We invite you to join our sharing of a new concept we are working on: a film driven by a long form poem, written by Nicole Patrick. The film depicts our current separation and isolation. It is accompanied by music that recalls early synthesizer aesthetics of the late 80s and 90s.
This is the world premiere of this exclusive preview.