Artist statement
Obdurate names a heightened form of stubbornness. A will set like stone. There is beauty in such resolve: mastery, rigor, and moral conviction often depend on the refusal to give in.
Yet stone does not bend. And when life demands movement, refusal becomes friction. Friction becomes dissonance. Dissonance becomes pain.
I have carried both the strength and the cost of this trait. With this piece, I invite others who have been both punished and rewarded by their own inflexibility to consider a shared question: what do we do when we are the Obdurate one?
In terms of orchestration: in the piece, mastery is represented by drum-kit performance, that of beauty in musical composition. The philosophy is carried by a mix of spoken word, poetry presented visually by video projection, and various other forms of obduracy are explored through various artistic collaborations.
Video & collaborations
More videos: YouTube channel.
Performances
Upcoming / confirmed
Tickets: tinyurl.com/Obdur
Past (selected)
Short-form performance spot.
Venue: MONA Container Stage.
Queen Victoria Market • Acoustic roving set • PG audience
Notes
- Music and mathematics (notes)
Contact / bookings
Collaborations, commissions, performance bookings, or anything living between art, music, and mathematics:
Email: william.a.troiani@gmail.com