Escape the Grind

Program Note:

An urban skatepark and it’s surroundings are the setting for a local skater as they embark on an escape from the day to day grind of city living for a brief period of time. They arrive to the sound of an adjacent building site, a busy road and children in the playground.  After the first trick is executed the skater is transported away from their environment to a state of flow, performing one trick after another, building tension over the passage before the climax and they are then dropped back into reality to return to everyday life awaiting the next chance to escape. All sounds were recorded and processed in Dublin, Ireland in the autumn of 2022.