This is an investigation into mechanisms that trigger an emotional in the audience. Experimenting with the creation of sequences and patterns that generate expectation then disrupting or interrupting them by introducing brusque changes of tempo, removing participants, or inverting roles.

The aim is to create a choreographic conversation or dialogue in which the participants never achieve the expected connection. But this is not of a case of not wanting to listen and they continue to struggle to communicate none the less.

In the end the glitch is always present and colours all aspects of human interaction, and although breaking our attempts to interact, our persistence is as much a part of human nature as the glitch itself.

BOUND “To walk or run with leaping strides,” “restricted or confined to a specified place,” “obliged by law, circumstances, or duty to do something” “Tied together.”

Based on the apparent paradox presented by the term “Bound” the piece is an investigation into the relation between freedom and constraint, of how control and technical dominion can lead to interpretive freedom, and restriction and delimitation allow choice.
Bound was created as a collaboration between Thmas Noone and Felipe Perez Santiago and investigates structured imporvisation in both the dance and the music.

Music for Bound created and recorded during residence at PHONOS, (electro-acoustic department, Universidad Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona.)