PROFILE – JESSIE MARINO

Much of Marino's interdisciplinary compositional work eschews conventional instrumentation, with scores that ask performers to use their bodies – using precisely articulated gestures, facial expressions and quotidian physical movements – both as an alternative and a complement to musical sounds. Marino finds humour and profundity in personal interactions and the way humans navigate physical space – an improvisational act that can invoke a ballet, a dinner party or a demolition derby. On 19 November 2019, a cold evening in Berlin, Jessie welcomed me into her apartment, where we sat down at her kitchen table for a pre-dinner chat. [...]that's where I leave the station because it actually goes somewhat against the idea of the club, that we are all in this community space.