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 we spend two hours with two artists – Rita Says, who with her Orchestra revives and reclaims 20th century […]
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, we visit live literature experiment ‘Shadowplay’ – the story of a fictional global pandemic cancelled by a real global […]
Shadowplay is an experimental live literature project; a post-apocalyptic fable where words are all the audience sees, and those words describe a language that’s tearing itself apart. The piece is soundtracked with an ever-evolving score improvised by Jacob and Reuben Kyriakides, at each location performed with guest musicians – never the same twice. We wish […]
Dancing in Code is an experimental performance exploring concealment, paranoia and distorted perception. Using dance, sound art and live film, performers pass coded messages across artforms, choreographing one another from the others’ blind spot. Using a pre-set series of rules, each party attempts to communicate with each other, whilst the others infiltrate, manipulate and distort […]
Jacob and Reuben Kyriakides have scored ‘Artificial Photosynthesis’, a new film from Cambridge Contemporary Dance. The work was commissioned by Pint of Science – Creative Reactions, a collaboration between art and science that saw artists respond to a significant piece of research. “Artificial photosynthesis is an ingenious scientific attempt to replicate an efficient natural process […]
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. […]
