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Beatrice Dillon
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Haroon Mirza
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Karen Gwyer
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John Butcher
Event
ASSEMBLY: Christian Marclay
8 Nov 2019 – 10 Nov 2019
Regular hours
- Fri, 08 Nov
- 19:30 – 22:00
- Sat, 09 Nov
- 19:30 – 22:00
- Sun, 10 Nov
- 18:30 – 21:00
Cost of entry
£12.00 per event or £30 for all three events
Address
- Strand
- WC2R 1LA
- London
- WC2R 1LA
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- 6, 9, 11, 13, 15, 23, 77a, 91 and 176, while the River Bus Service can be taken to Embankment and Savoy Piers.
- Temple, Covent Garden, Charing Cross and Embankment.
- Charing Cross, Waterloo and Blackfriars.
For the second ASSEMBLY season, resident artist Christian Marclay curates a series of intimate musical performances in the Lancaster Rooms at Somerset House responding to the sounds and acoustics of the street outside the neoclassical building.
About
Pedestrians, traffic, roadworks, protest, the corner of Somerset House where Waterloo Bridge meets Embankment is a hive of often unpredictable activity and noise. Acknowledging and working with this to define a compositional framework, Marclay invites a series of guests to collaborate in bringing the outdoor inside for an evolving series of electro-acoustic performances. Presented over three nights, six new performances corresponding to Marclay’s sonic vision will be created live in the space, each responding to the concept in a different way.
On Friday 08 November resident artist and musician Beatrice Dillon presents infraordinary, a new work examining and reframing the rhythmic patterns of the street outside, alongside new audio-visual work by Haroon Mirza utilising projected visuals and panning to re-spatialise the traffic soundscape.
Saturday 09 November sees Lawrence Lek team up with Seth Scott & Robin Simpson to replicate the atmosphere of the Extinction Rebellion protests that took place on Waterloo Bridge which the Lancaster Rooms overlook. Mira Benjamin, John Lely & Heather Roche join collaboratively on Room Song, a performance which is founded on the interplay of instrumental intonation and environmental acoustics to create an interior 'resonancing' of the outside world.
On Sunday 10 November, experimental techno producer Karen Gwyer will approach the street noises as drums building over the course of the performance, while John Butcher and Lasse Marhaug join forces to modulate the street sounds through saxophone and electronics, creating a complex multi-ingredient feedback system to be manipulated in real time.
