The Clockhouse
​(2012)

Initial Idea: Deborah Claire Procter
Concept Developed in collaboration: Procter & Oscar Edelstein
Sound Design: Oscar Edelstein
Text: Deborah Claire Procter & Oscar Edelstein
Actors: Gwion Llŷr, Deborah Claire Procter & Oscar Edelstein
Photos: Keith Morris & Anthony Griffiths

Funding: Arts Council of Wales / Aberystwyth Town Council

This is a time-based work about the ambiguity and illusion of what we see and what we understand, mounted by multi-media artist & performer Deborah Claire Procter. The piece involves installing a hut on Aberystwyth Wooden Harbour Jetty so that small groups of people are able to enter to experience a sound installation and two screens showing the view of the harbour wall as if through windows, but in effect through the lenses of two security cameras placed outside. The real and the mediated, the close and the far are juxtaposed to take the public on a re-visioning of a familiar landscape.

​This project was originally called “Look You Here Now” as a working project title. It was a development of some of the ideas that Procter has discovered while working on various projects of what composer Oscar Edelstein calls “Acoustic Theatre”, where a sense of space and memory are emphasized.

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A Horse Bleeding Shakespeare (2010)

In the spring of 2010 Deborah Claire Procter set out to investigate ideas about landscape and its representation in performance. 

This period of research and development called “What if? / Beth os?” was supported by a project grant from the Arts Council of Wales.

In part it was geographically based in West Wales around the Pafiliwn, in Pontrhydfendigaid which is a large performance space nestled in the hills between Lampeter, Devil’s Bridge and Strata Florida monastery - an area incredibly ripe with history.

​During the working process Oscar Edelstein came up with the title “A Horse Bleeding Shakespeare.”  

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Rivers and Mirrors: Part I 
​(2007)

by Oscar Edelstein 
with video & vocals by Deborah Claire Procter
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​- an un-classic piano,
an abandoned factory,
​an empty library - 

Rivers and Mirrors: Part I is a musical work based on poetic reflections on the theme of rivers and mirrors that poses the question “to be in the mirror or to cross the river.”  In his enigmatic and hypnotic mix of music and images, Edelstein creates a concert with an atmospheric sense of history, memory and longing. His non-standard, “un-classical” approach to the piano has the distinction that he is as a composer who plays the piano, rather than a pianist - and this conjures up new possibilities of sound and expression in the piano.

New layers of meaning are added to the recital with the silent video presence of dancer Sandra Grinberg (Trisha Brown Dance Company) moving alone amongst dust and concrete in an empty factory, and among the bare bookcases of the famous library in Buenos Aires where author Jorge Luis Borges once worked. In the final of the concert evocative vocals by Deborah Claire Procter added to the atmosphere as they combine with the virtuosic piano playing of Oscar Edelstein.

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"It is one of those rare performances in which you feel that something has been added to your life, some new insight, a different kind of association, or the sheer pleasure of having great music, images & poetry combined in a subtle way. Edelstein's piano playing & improvisations are really quite extraordinary."  Gloria Carnevali, Director of the Bolivar Hall

Seapiece (2002)

Commentaries from audience comments-book: 

"An extraordinary experience - quite moving!"
"A beautiful & unique experience."
"Amazing feat, I watched for 4 hours transfixed."
"Most original work."
"Evocative!"
"Great! Very moving."
"Marvellous depiction of people and landscape: very moving."

Funded by Wales Council for Voluntary Action, Arts Council of Wales & Aberystwyth Town Council

In the summer of 2002 over 25 performers came together in a four hour movement study set on the seawall in Aberystwyth, directed by Deborah Claire Procter with performers Jane Lloyd-Francis (Carreg Dressage), Megan Lloyd and Kira Ratna (Dance India Wales), Gorwellion community group, Vikram Ivengar (Katak dancer), Stuart Bowden (Diversions Dance Company), Su Chu Lu (Chinese dance), Sarah Mumford (Contemporary dancer), Jan Davis (Contemporary dancer) and participants from the Centre for Performance Research Summer School.

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