Derek Yau’s beautiful, optimistic, elegiac May is a series of piano pieces recorded across the record’s titular month and released in the next. Like many things during lockdown it was created at home, and like many peoples’ experience of days during lockdown – one piece flows into the next with no distinction, no clear beginning or […]
Colliding Lines present live sessions, cross-genre collaborations and left-field recordings drawn from the London, UK and international experimental scenes; a long-form love letter to recorded audio as soundtrack, as sound art and as storyteller. This month takes the theme of beginnings or origins – artists and works that begin at home, in the family, or […]
International live arts collective Colliding Lines present Reanimation, a monthly live series re-visiting, re-scoring and re-imagining different eras of avant garde and experimental animation. Each month, we invite a diverse line-up of musicians and sound artists to compose and perform scores to a programme of short films, each month curated around a different theme and era. The […]
Shadowplay is a live literature experiment in sensory deprivation. Suspended in a dark auditorium, the audience are alone save for white words projected into the pitch black canvas. Around them a soundtrack emerges, scoring urgent scenes told in broken staccato sentences. It is a story about the power of language to make reality and, inevitably, undo it. […]
The following video is an extract from Laura McGarrigle and Derek Yau’s improvised live performance in The Leper Chapel, Cambridge, during October 2014. The video was shot and edited by Brother Bear. Cambridge Contemporary Dance, Jacob Kyriakides and brother Reuben previously worked together for Dancing in Code. Photo by: Matt Widgery Film by: Brother Bear Dance: Gabriella Davalos
