... so, one track that you'd like to be
a. heard in that huge church space and
b. interpreted into "something that happens" during the listening of it.
Icarus, with their "Music to Silent Film" project, invited artists to make a silent film. They clearly pointed out the gap wherein they'd do the work. What I'm suggesting is that in much of your music there's an imaginative space as obvious to me as the silence in those films. [You can hear things while you see things. You can see things while you hear things.] I see things in that space.
[In fact, in comparing it to music videos I realise the LIVE element means that it's not just that I "see" things in that space - it's more that i sense the possiblity of something happening. Just "seeing" is too easy; here's a chance for people to be more than mere "spectators" while listening: to be a witness involves more of a bodily, total, even ethical sense of presence. At it's best this is the same when listening to music. The idea of the two together, feeding each other, strikes me as something to go for. ]
Listening to music, even in a concert, you're always on your own somewhere. Just like that Catalan expression, "a man eating alone in a restaurant is never only eating", neither is the listener only listening - particularly an avid listener. However abstract, the tendency is to create a kind of event °° surrounding the music as an attempt to channel and intensify the listening experience.
However sometimes it's pretty difficult to do this, even if the music is fantastic. Watching Sam and Ollie as Icarus playing live it's sometimes difficult to believe the extraordinary sounds you're hearing are actually coming from the two screen-illuminated heads on stage. Just seeing the lines and cubes moving and flashing on their screens provides "a way in", some kind of engagement.
I think it's important that rather than relying on music to "colour" a performance already conceived, this project instead is going to work around those questions about the way music is listened to, particularly in the live context, to try and literally make people listen BETTER - to a MUSIC already conceived.