Jonathan Harvey: Mortuos Plango
Installation by Visual Kitchen
Friday 20 November
St Thomas' Church,
Free Event
Launch EventSt Thomas' Church
4pm
Open daily throughout the Festival 2pm-6pm
Nearly thirty years after its realisation, Jonathan Harvey's electronic tape piece Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco remains one of the most fascinating adventures in electro-acoustics and one of the composer's best pieces. At the invitation of the 2008 Gaida Festival (Vilnius), guest curator Lieven Bertels and the video collective Visual Kitchen (Brussels) devised a video installation to complement this piece and to invite listeners to engage with the ‘surround sound' nature of the piece more actively. The audience is invited to become part of an enchanting sequence of abstract video tableaus projected on a square surface on the floor.
Produced by hcmf// commissioned by Gaida Festival; supported by Réseau Varèse; also supported by British Council
