Melancholy Artefacts new music theatre piece, in collaboration with composer Judith Weir.

Three objects created in the closing months of 1918, evoked in a music media theatre piece, commemorating desperate technological ingenuity and extreme human experience at the close of WW1

R and D commissioned 2017 by 1418NOW and Brighton Festival.
Performance, VR and other media forms – conceived to be presented in two stages –
a) live performances at a site specific venue
b) a mediated recreation, in a mobile container – a technological vessel of memory

Storyboard Portfolio

Melancholy Artefact No 1   A strip of cine-film, part of a system for recording the intensity of artillery bombardment. This used microphones to pick up sound, translating it into electrical signals which were recorded on film by a stylus writing with a beam of light.  Active on 11th November 1918, the artefact records the last three seconds before 10:59, and the first three seconds after 11:01. But the critical two minutes, bridging war and peace, are unrecorded, are missing.