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‘LET'S PET MY LEFT HAND LIKE IT IS PISCO, YEAH?’ INTERPERSONAL TOUCH IN THE WORK OF ANDY INGAMELLS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 April 2022

Julian Kämper
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Abstract

This article discusses touch-related works by the British composer–performer Andy Ingamells, works that that make up a large part of his oeuvre. In particular the article focuses on a series of works created during the last decade: Tape Piece (2012), The Ticklish Subject (2013), Having never seen (a) Ghost (2014), Waschen (2015), He That Plays The English Gentlemen Shall Be Welcome (2016), Petting Zoo (2019) and Petting Pisco (2020). These works exemplify Ingamells' understanding of music in general, but now, in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, they can also be seen very differently as a commentary on social activities that people had to forego because of contact restrictions during the pandemic.

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Tempo , Volume 76 , Issue 300 , April 2022 , pp. 33 - 43
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press

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References

1 All quotations from Ingamells are taken from an interview with the author on 13 April 2021.

2 Andy Ingamells recalls the development process in an article in https://thesampler.org/news-opinion/apartment-house-petting-zoo/, accessed 12 November 2021.

3 The video of the premiere is available on Vimeo, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoM3cR9gouQ&t=74s, accessed 21 February 2022.

4 Gerko Egert, Berührungen. Bewegung, Relation und Affekt im zeitgenössischen Tanz (transcript Verlag: Bielefeld, 2016). The original German texts reads: ‘Es sind ihre Bewegungen, die die Berührungen in ihrer Unterschiedlichkeit wahrnehmbar machen und durch die sie spezifisch werden. Erst wenn die Hand über die Haut fährt, kann zwischen einem Streicheln, Streifen, Reiben oder Betasten differenziert werden, und erst wenn nicht mehr nur der Moment des Kontakts der Körper betrachtet wird, sondern ihre gegenseitigen Annäherungen und Entfernungen, die Dynamiken und Rhythmen ihrer Bewegung, ist eine Unterscheidung zwischen Liebkosen und Schlagen möglich’ (my translation).

5 Andy Ingamells, Grandchildren of Experimental Music – performing the compositional act by creating intriguing situations in which sound may occur. A portfolio of performances with commentary submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements of Birmingham City University for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, 2017.

6 Grundwald, Martin, Homo Hapticus: Warum wir ohne Tastsinn nicht leben können (Droemer: München, 2017)Google Scholar.

7 Maya Verlaak and Andy Ingamells, Tape Piece. 2020, Birmingham Record Company, BRC009.

8 Egert, Berührungen. Bewegung, Relation und Affekt im zeitgenössischen Tanz, pp. 32–33.

9 Egert, Berührungen. Bewegung, Relation und Affekt im zeitgenössischen Tanz, pp. 32–33.

10 The Gospel according to St John, Chapter 20, Verses 24–29.

11 Andy Ingamells, Petting Pisco (2020), transcription of sound track.