Hyperbodies

Hyperbodies takes some of its cues in its handling of temporal layers from Conlon Nancarrow’s multi-tempi approach and his tempo proportion, sound mass canons. I was interested in how sheer speed, force, and complex temporal layering opens up new questions like what is gesture without the body? And what is heard when the music transitions beyond the realm of human performability? Musicologist Rolf Inge Godøy proposes that gestural imagery is “our mental capacity for imagining gestures without seeing them or actually carrying them out, meaning that we can recall and re-experience or even invent new gestures through our ‘inner eye’ and inner sense of movement and effort.” (Godøy, 2003, p. 55).