Meriel Price

Building Sights – site-specific music theatre in celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Royal Northern College of Music Building

by Meriel Price, world premiere at the Made in Manchester Festival

3rd – 5th May 2023, Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester

Building Sights, commissioned by the Royal Northern College of Music for the 50th anniversary of it’s building, is a work of contemporary music theatre that uses the RNCM building as it’s score. The architecture, interior design and interplay of interior and exterior spaces dictates the structure of the piece, the behaviour within these spaces the narrative.

Material for the composition is drawn from everyday sounds, actions and gestures found in and around the building. These are scored and choreographed to create subtle, immersive interactions in which the boundaries between performer and audience are blurred. Meriel worked with RNCM students to explore the potential of tipping the performer – audience balance, creating unexpected dynamics of who is the audience and who the performer, who is watching who.

This working method is currently being developed further, exploring the potential of other architectural spaces.

For commissioning work composed for a specific space or building please use the contact form.

Sousveillance
Staring at the Bin — Swiss Edition

by Meriel Price, curated by Isabel Piniella Grillet, performed by SoundTrieb

21 February – 26 March 2023 Museum Tinguely, Basel

In dialogue with the exhibition À bruit secret, the artist and composer Meriel Price presents a video series of subtle and fleeting miniature performances in public space. Viewers are witnesses to a choreographed, anarchistic infiltration of surveillance that unfolds acoustically as well as performatively.

A companion publication is planned for March 2023 with essays addressing the exhibition’s framework as well as bringing Price’s work into dialogue with Tinguely’s understanding of daily soundscapes, rhythm and movement.

Team

Artist: Meriel Price
Curator: Isabel Piniella
Organiser: SoundTrieb Association
Performers: Juan José Faccio, Alice Mei-Yu Hohberger, Magdalena Irmann, Corentin Marillier, Anna Minten.
Camera: Lukas Egger & Luca Fortuna
Sound: Pablo Callisaya, Luca Fortuna & Seraina Frazetto
Post production: Tapir Film – Moritz Hossli, Pablo Callisaya

The Amposta Edition of Staring at the Bin written by Meriel Price was performed at the OUT·SIDE 22 Festival on the 22nd October 2022 by FRAMES Percussion in collaboration with Centre d’Art Lo Pati.

Taking up Space, Taking in Space consisting of performances in Manchester Art Gallery and an installation in St. Peter’s Square was shown as part of the Art Assembly Festival on the 18th June 2022. A collaboration between Meriel Price, Francesca Brugola, Elinor Black, Jaz Percy, Sophie Hawkins and Maya Chowdry.

Aside are excited to announce they have been awarded Initialförderung for their research project “Acts of Violence” which will enable us to undertake extensive research and material development into the subject of violence in classical music.

We would like to thank Fonds Darstellende Künste for their support.

“Your Rope” for four skipping performers and “Nearly” were written for The House of Bedlam + Aside and premiered at the New Music Manchester Festival at the Royal Northern College of Music.

Aside had the pleasure of performing with The House of Bedlam at 7pm, a quick interview in between and then back on stage with Larry Goves for a special late night set with new works by Larry Goves and collaborations with Aside.

On the 25th and 30th May 2019 I will be performing in the series of music theatre minitures by Manos Tsangaris “Winzig und der Elefant” at the Akademie der Künste Hanseatenweg, Berlin. It’s a late night installation from 21:30 till 24:00 with admission until 22:00.