If a person falls over and dies in a forest and no one is around to hear, should it still be ‘liked’ on face-book?
Our Many Selves takes the intensely private yet public site of the Edwardian Cloakroom as a starting point for an exploration of how we see ourselves, our public selves and our private selves. In an age in which a generation continually redefines its ‘digital self’, through the use of hidden sound and projected image the work asks questions of identity that transcend time and place. Our Many Selves is a Whispering Gallery production. The Edwardian Cloak Rooms. Park Row, Bristol. BS1 5LS 6th – 8th March 2015 |
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Contemporary Dance Commission
2014
Contemporary Dance Commission
2014
North America Soundscape
A sonic reflection of a journey through Ontario, British Columbia, Hawaii and California
Amongst other things you can hear Coquis in Hilo (Big Island Hawaii), small Puertorican frogs that have changed the soundscape of parts of the Island.
Amongst other things you can hear Coquis in Hilo (Big Island Hawaii), small Puertorican frogs that have changed the soundscape of parts of the Island.
The Whispering Gallery
Interactive Performance Walk
'Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.'
Joseph Campbell
Through the framework of the historical tour The Whispering Gallery breathes life into the ordinary, often extraordinary, but mostly unheard stories that are the lives that we move amongst; familiar strangers of the everyday. The thoughts, memories, regrets and dreams of the people who fleetingly occupy our peripheral experience become the central figures in this short journey that dispatches an evocation of the dead in favour of a celebration of the living.
All that you hear is real, there is no fiction, this is the whispering gallery a place where the smallest detail has a presence.
The Whispering Gallery is a multilayered, interactive, audio and performance experience that will open your ears and eyes to the lives of those around you .
Joseph Campbell
Through the framework of the historical tour The Whispering Gallery breathes life into the ordinary, often extraordinary, but mostly unheard stories that are the lives that we move amongst; familiar strangers of the everyday. The thoughts, memories, regrets and dreams of the people who fleetingly occupy our peripheral experience become the central figures in this short journey that dispatches an evocation of the dead in favour of a celebration of the living.
All that you hear is real, there is no fiction, this is the whispering gallery a place where the smallest detail has a presence.
The Whispering Gallery is a multilayered, interactive, audio and performance experience that will open your ears and eyes to the lives of those around you .
Comments:
The gift of two super powers - being invisible and able to hear other people's thoughts. I would pay silly money to have that experience again...
Mal Sainsbury
Stimulating and evocative... Uncovering the layers of historical and human experience was fascinating and compelling...It became immediately apparent, that one was being afforded the opportunity to interact with the space from an alternative perspective of enhanced awareness of that which has been, that which is happening and possibly that which is yet to come...
A Hutchins
I loved the tour. It was not what I was expecting..... a very immersive experience into a darker, truthful world of our own aided by the use of sublime sound design and kept real by the interaction with real world characters.
C. Light
Beautifully constructed and honed and shaped in performance. The echoes have remained in my thoughts and feelings all week.
D Straun
What I didn’t expect was that The Whispering Gallery would change my perception of sound in the street long after I had taken off my headphones.
...a great piece of work and so much more inspiring than any audio tour I have ever been on.
M Ingoldby
I loved the fact that I was never sure if I was reading meaning into what was passing me by or what was passing me by had been constructed for the performance. My favorite moments were when things did come together (the visual and text) but it was fleeting, surprising, and/or unexplained. The tour was not over for me after I handed back my headphones. For the rest of the day I listened. It was as if someone else’s way of perceiving the city had been, briefly, handed over to me. A rare treat .
E Williams
As someone who is blind with only 4% peripheral vision in one eye, this experience for me was in some ways the same as how I normally walk down a street - connecting what I hear with visual memory. This in turn stimulates powerful internal imagery. This tour may give an insight to sighted people into what it is like to be blind and trying to navigate through a public space with a cacophony of sound coming at you from all directions. It is a lesson on how to listen on many levels.
K Flaherty
An extraordinary experience. The tour took me to places and spaces I never knew existed, even though they had always been there. Opened my ears to a whole new way of seeing things.
Adrian
The layering of the real-time sounds and the recorded voices, mediated through the headphones, created a sense of being at once removed from the immediate environment and entirely immersed in it. It's sidesteps in reality like that that jolt us into a state where we see things from a new perspective. As it were. Loved it.
Drusilla Marland
INSTALLATION DOCUMENTARY
The Magpie Mix was an experimental documentary, projected onto the streets of Stokes Croft, a vibrant, colourful, depressing, hopeful place and community in Bristol. It's a celebration of possibility.
The Magpie Mix was an experimental documentary, projected onto the streets of Stokes Croft, a vibrant, colourful, depressing, hopeful place and community in Bristol. It's a celebration of possibility.