Soundscapes

Soundscapes (1996) was a live performance hosted in the Wards Building Basement, Waygood Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne and ISIS Gallery, Melmerby, Cumbria. The two spaces were linked via ISDN which enabled live sound and video to appear simultaneously in both spaces where two female sopranos performed fragments of unaccompanied operatic duets together, within and across real and digital space. Each gallery hosted one live performer and her dueting partner, whose video image was projected live onto a large screen from the connected site. 

The work was performed across a virtual line between two geographic sites on either side of the North of England, a narrow geographic point resembling the ‘throat’ of the country, and one which echos the position of the Roman fortifications, Hadrian’s Wall.

Made in collaboration with Pat Naldi.