In 2021 I started working with choreographer Rita Cioffi on a dance performance called Slows with seven dancers, where I'm also on stage taking care of the music and occasionally doing minimal movements as well.
It's a project about slows and at some point we decided that a large part of the music would be made of existing tunes: famous typical slows, slow music, music that isn't a slow or slow at all but that would make sense for some reason.
I gathered about 400 tracks that I ran through a stem separation algorithm, marked the beats, and that I would then degrade, stretch, transform and mash up in many possible ways to produce the final soundtrack for the show.
A part of it is prepared and another is done on the fly, partially improvised (I often use new tunes from one venue to another and other performers don't know about it in advance).
Since most of it is done live and rarely recorded, I have very few exported versions of it. But I do have a few WIP mashups and random tests that I'm sharing below. I might try to export more of them later.
Later, we worked together again on another performance called After Slows with only two people this time, including choreographer Rita Cioffi.
The music is a bit more linear for this one but also done by twisting old songs together.
I agreed to work that way but this is typically a tricky case regarding rights. I tried to include credits for artists involved in the file tags as best as I could.
