Saxophonists on exercise bikes, a cappella singers in a locker room and a composition for string players and a rowing machine – Dead Weight is not your usual concert.
The first time I saw Shannon Barnett perform, she was playing the trombone while hanging upside down, suspended in the air by one foot.Credit:“Yeah, that was crazy!” laughs Barnett, speaking on Zoom from her current home in Cologne, Germany. The Australian jazz trombonist is recalling her time as a member of Circus Oz’s highly interactive band in 2009-10, and says it was her work with the circus that first piqued her interest in combining music with physical movement.
Those topics include the sometimes hostile relationship between cyclists and car users, and lingering derogatory attitudes towards female jazz artists. Although she devised and composed the music for each piece, Barnett won’t be performing on the night – not even as the aerobics teacher, despite having become a qualified fitness instructor as her “pandemic project”. “I’d rather be involved behind the scenes,” she says. “This [curatorial work] is something I’d like to do more of, and I don’t necessarily have to be on stage.”She will be on stage, though, with her superb German quartet in a separate MIJF gig.
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