Simon Atkinson and Kerry Francksen presented their new work, 'Betwixt and Between II', at this month's Sound/Image 2025 festival hosted by University of Greenwich. The piece is for live movement, moving image and multi-channel electroacoustic music, and was made in response to the festival's 'reflecting forwards' call.
This exposition presented the next iteration of the artists' long-standing explorations into the delicate and complex relationships between live-digital dance performance and acousmatic sound. Their original 'Betwixt and Between' piece is now ten years old, however many of that work's underlying concepts still have resonance today: ideas of intimacy, fragility, connection and imagination. In an increasingly technologized world, an opportunity to reconnect with bodies, images and sound reflectively and deliberately feels significant. Challenging some of the normative traditions of combining movement, media and music, this interactive and intuitive work presents bodies, media and musical sound simultaneously as mutual sensuous entities.
