Tim Etchells & Tony Buck: Go On Like This
Layering percussion and words, this performance explores language and blurs the boundaries between sound and sense.
Go On Like This is a performance encounter between artist and writer Tim Etchells (Forced Entertainment) and the legendary percussionist Tony Buck, founder-member of Australian trio The Necks.
The two artists share strong fascinations with the possibilities of both free improvisation and intensive repetition – Buck in the realm of mutating percussive elements and Etchells in the realm of looping language fragments.
Go On Like This brings the performers together for an evening of loops and cacophonies, blurring the lines between language as sense and language as pure sound, creating something on the border zone between their two practices. This show is the first-ever performance of this collaboration between the artists.
Part of Forced Entertainment at 40, a special London-wide programme in partnership with the Southbank Centre, Battersea Arts Centre and The Place to celebrate 40 years of tearing up the rulebook.
Need to know
Tim Etchells & Tony Buck: Go On Like This is part of the programme Forced Entertainment at 40. Aso taking place at the Southbank Centre is Signal to Noise.
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This event is held at the Purcell Room Southbank Centre
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