Sound as Immersive Theatre
Fierce festival 2011:
Symphony for a missing room at BMAG
http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2011/mar/24/fierce-review"Most extraordinary of all is Lundahl & Seitl's Symphony of a Missing Room, at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. In this exhilarating immersive piece, six people at a time are blindfolded, given headphones, and then invited to have a private dream in a public space. It's like falling into your own personal fairytale, finding that secret garden, or going through the wardrobe into Narnia. You are seduced by the gentle voice in your ear, and by the hands that flutter around you like birds. Yet never for a moment do you feel out of control – it is, after all, your own imagination that gives this work its wild power."
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http://www.spoonfed.co.uk/spooners/naimakhan-6622/lundahl-seitl-on-rupert-sheldrake-and-the-relationship-between-science-and-performance-5871/
"After a few minutes with theatre makers Martina Seitl and Christer Lundahl, it's clear that they're asking big questions about existence, presence and how to challenge our perceptions. Einstein, Newton and Bruce Damer (who coined the term Avatar) all pop up in conversation quite frequently, but today they want to tell me about the work of Rupert Sheldrake."
Sigur Ros:
Icelandic band who combine sad melancholic, atmospheric music with video and drawing. An evocation of a sense of place.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hrq7ffdV1ro&feature=related
Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Nefernegger.
A Ghost story about Highgate CemeteryThere is a lot of historical detail about Highgate and Victorian funeral customs which I found very useful as well as enjoying a 'good read'.