A live performance expanding on the False Note score with artist Freya Dooley and musician Emma Daman Thomas.
Reconfiguring the exhibition space and its multi-channel sound installation, Freya and Emma remained in residence in the gallery after the exhibition closed, composing new musical experiments that layer synths and voice with samples, fragments, and false notes.
Freya Dooley’s solo exhibition False Note comprised three separate but interconnected works which explored themes of replacement and connection. The themes in the False Note exhibition related to the musical and idiomatic meanings of the term ʻfalse noteʼ – defined in music as a note that has been muted to the point that there is no discernable pitch, but is still an essential part of the composition and its rhythm. This term also has a murkier suggestion – to strike a false note is to miss the mark, fall out of sync – reminding us of miscommunications, inconsistencies and misalignments.
The performance was supported by Freya’s recent PRS Foundation Women Make Music award.
Image Credit: @shared_programme – Peter Martin
