​September 2025:

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Caught By The River has published a wonderful article about loomeweight I. Written by Jenny Vuglar, the article explores the year we spent touring and weaving with loomeweight I - read it here! 

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   "Collaboration, the loosing of ego, seems part of the ethos of the piece.  Each singer responds to the other in a simple call and response structure.  There is no pattern, no written notation to follow, each must respond to the other.  Listening is as important as sound-making; the sound must be absorbed, brought in before being sent out again, changed, extended, contrasted. There is no leader in this but a weaving of two very different voices.  At the same time the act of actual weaving continues, pushing a new piece of detritus against that laid down by the other. A continuous process of bending, choosing material then standing to push it with fingers through the warp threads while the voice continues its own shuttling across the space between. 

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   As an audience it is hypnotic; we are flowing into the moment of creation. As performers it was more difficult than expected to keep that focus and intensity for such long periods.  Patricia says at times they found themselves settling into voice patterns, desperate for change.  One melodic fragment was banned in the end as it pushed the performance into the predictable. The unexpected, the joy of the accidental, was what made Loomeweight live.

 

   To improvise is to make yourself vulnerable.  There is no road map. The voices at times mourning this fragile world, the seas rising, the land washed away; at times strong and defiant holding the transient.  The weave is a shroud, is a flag; holds what we have done to the world and the hope that we can be redeemed. "