{"id":12188,"date":"2013-12-01T08:42:11","date_gmt":"2013-11-30T21:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stuartbuchanan.com\/?post_type=portfolio&p=12188"},"modified":"2021-01-31T07:07:54","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T07:07:54","slug":"the-vainglories-the-visitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/2013\/12\/01\/the-vainglories-the-visitor\/","title":{"rendered":"The Vainglories – 'The Visitor' (Wood And Wire)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThe Vainglories is the solo project of Gillian Lever. Written for Amanda Lever\u2019s Masters in Choreography final performance, The Visitor explores the experience of being a sole identity in a world of unknown.
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Notes.<\/strong>
\nWritten for Amanda Lever\u2019s Masters in Choreography final performance, The Visitor<\/em>explores the experience of being a sole identity in a world of unknown.
\nAn entity awakes in an otherworldly place. Through interaction with its surroundings, as well as curious introspection, it discovers the strange balance that exists between the singular and the universal.
\nThe Visitor<\/em>\u00a0hums with an ominous intensity, and taps the listener on the shoulder with inexplicable pops, bellsound and unidentified sonic shadows. A seemingly steady rhythmic foundation is unsettled by a swarm of cold voices, and sunlit strings build into a molten golden stormfront, which slowly dissipates like ink into water.
\nThe Visitor<\/em>\u00a0is left alone with this new space, one that it is now an unending part of.
\n\u201cseven tracks of surprisingly tender music underpinned by a scaffolding of grinding, surging glitch \u2026 an extraordinary achievement\u201d
\nBlind Dragonfly<\/a><\/p>\n

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Biography.<\/strong>
\nThe Vainglories<\/strong> is the solo project of Gillian Lever, and is responsible for producing the soundtrack to her introspective moods. Melancholic melody intertwines with textured strangeness to create lullabies for the nightmare-prone. The Vainglories has played live in UK and Australian venues, and has written music for film and live theatre, including writing and performing the live score for Watson\u2019s Jhonsey award winning show Once Were Planets<\/em> in the 2013 Melbourne International Comedy Festival. In 2013 The Vainglories also wrote the music for Amanda Lever\u2019s Masters in Choreography VCA final performance, Dasein<\/em>.
\nBased in Melbourne, The Vainglories constantly struggles with the grammatical difficulties arising from being a solo artist with a name more suited to a band.
\nThe Vainglories on Soundcloud<\/a>
\nThe Vainglories on Bandcamp<\/a><\/p>\n

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Tracklisting.<\/strong>
\n1. Part 1 (8:54)
\n2. Part 2 (13:22)
\n3. Part 3 (11:17)<\/p>\n

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Credits.<\/strong>
\nMixed and mastered by Simon Polinski at Laundry Goat Studios. Photograph of Amanda Lever by Jeff Busby, featuring artwork by Soma Garner.<\/p>\n

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Catalogue.<\/strong> WW25<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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