Henri Lefebvre: Rhythmanalysis

Henri Lefebvre thinks anything can have a rhythm including our bodies, ‘our biological rhythms of sleep, hunger and thirst, excretion and so on are more and more conditioned by the social environment and our working lives.We train ourselves, and are trained, to behave in a number of ways.’ Even cities can have rhythms for example the traffic lights have a sequence to follow. Noises in a city can be like a musical score. Everybody has their own individual rhythms.This relates to our performance as in our performance we are responding to sound. Originally we chose quite contemporary music for our performance to respond to however we realise now that we don’t have to use conventional styles of music to respond to we could even just use sounds like how the sounds of a city can make a musical score.

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