Project:
(((cocktail party effect)))
Intended for large social functions, a series of fun, surprising and entertaining interventions appear from, and disappear quickly into the crowd. Audible hors d’oeuvres!
Richard Windeyer’s sketch “Audio Waiters”
Audio Waiters premiered as a 'guerilla' performance in 1999 during the intermission of a NUMUS new music concert in Waterloo. The central themes explored in this work included the use of music in restaurants, fine dining as a theatrical experience, the mass consumption of music (disguised as hors d'oeuvres) by pre-occupied listeners engaged in the larger social context of music concerts, and a consideration of the 'service staff' role which working musicians have typically found themselves playing in Western societies throughout history.
