Another Children’s Television
first performance: Yarn/Wire; Miller Theater, NYC USA April 2022 — commissioned by Miller Theatre NYC, with lead support from Mark H. Jackson and Karen L. Hagberg; and additional support from Australian Performing Rights Association ‘Art Music Fund’ — instrumentation: two keyboardists and two percussionists — duration 30′ / 2022 (revised 2024)
Another Children’s Television is a live recreation of an imaginary library music record, the titles of which come from children’s television programs of the 1970’s that never saw production. On the one hand, these musical blocks of Anglo-American cultural memory may induce a melancholia for a lost time when daily routine was shaped by free-to-air television, and not everything was privatised. On the other, to quote Walter Benjamin, ‘in waste products, children recognize that the face of the world of things turns towards them, and towards them alone’. (TM)
