Incidental rendition

June 2020

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Incidental Rendition

A collaboration between Nicola Ellis and Manoli Moriaty

Incidental Rendition is a sonic reflection of the Ritherdon factory at work. Composed for headphone listening, the piece presents the manufacturing process as a metaphorical symphony; the factory’s tools and machines are the instruments, the people working in Ritherdon are the ensemble performers, the background noise is the reverberant concert hall resulting from the factory’s architecture, and the order of the manufacturing process is the conductor.

 

The fixed media recordings used in this work were originally recorded in February 2020. Castlefield Gallery comissioned the final work in the summer of 2020, which was launched online in June 2020 in lieu of the solo exhibition 'Nicola Ellis and Ritherdon & Co ltd: No gaps in the line', which had been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. 

 

Programme notes describing the process of making the Incidental Rendition:

Both artists wrote a short essay about Incidental Rendition. The results were two essays about the same work from the perspective of practitioners with different specialisms. 

 

Nicola Ellis' Essay:

 

 

Manoli Moriaty's essay:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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