12
December
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12
December
5.30pm & 8pm
5.30pm & 8pm
…from one glasse to another. Day 2.
…from one glasse to another. Day 2.
Musarc performs work by Philip Glass, Lina Lapelyte, Laure Prouvost, Ben Rivers and Ralph Vaughan Williams.
Doors 5pm, performance at 5.30pm
Doors 7.30pm, performance 8pm
Musarc performs work by Philip Glass, Lina Lapelyte, Laure Prouvost, Ben Rivers and Ralph Vaughan Williams.
Day 2 of …from one glasse to another, a transdisciplinary festival of voice and video curated by Sam Belinfante. Featuring work by Lina Lapelyte, Laure Prouvost, Ben Rivers, Ralph Vaughan Williams and Philip Glass, performed by Musarc with Patricia Auchterlonie and Plus-Minus Ensemble. Musical Director: Oli Kitching.
In Ovid’s story Echo and Narcissus play creatively and provocatively with sonic and visual image making; Echo – particularly – is able to conjure new meaning and form through vocal repetition and mimicry. Beyond profound relations between light and sound, the stories are replete with issues of emptiness and fullness of self, of absorption and reflection.
Musarc presents a series of musical vignettes that restage Echo and Narcissus’ dialogues through modern and seemingly outmoded audiovisual technology.
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Further information on the programme:
In his early, rarely performed partsong; Echo's Lament for Narcissus (1895–96), Ralph Vaughan Williams teases out the temporal and synaesthetic distortions of Ben Jonson’s poem of the same name. This extraordinary setting forms the basis of a series of new reflections and voicings of Echo and Narcissus that reveal nuanced and radical approaches to both gender and audio-visual phenomena.
Recalling her recent performances and video installations at The Cosmic House (2025), artist and composer Lina Lapelyte presents a series of live and filmed fragments where performers ponder, commune, and weave new interpretations of cosmic themes.
In Laure Prouvost’s film Shadow Does (2023) we see the world through the eyes of a little girl, who in shadow play, explpres the objects of her daily life and rapidly changing habits. The film is further layered with songs by Sam Belinfante and interventions by the extraordinary singer and maker Patricia Auchterlonie. Ben Rivers takes us deeper into post-apocalyptic earth with his film Golden Cities, an extract from his award winning Mare’s Nest, based on Don DeLillo's climate crisis play The Word for Snow (2014).
The culmination of the event is a multimedia performance of ‘Vessels’, from Philip Glass’ seminal score for Godfrey Reggio’s Koyaanisqatsi (1982). Even after the excessive proliferation of timelapse imagery, now a signifier of stock video and AI slop, the music and visuals of Koyaanisqatsi remain staggeringly prophetic in the re-imagining of people, technology and our environment.
"It's not that we use technology, we live technology. Technology has become as ubiquitous as the air we breathe..." - Godfrey Reggio, 2022
Image Credits
Lead Image: Lina Lapelytė, In the Dark, We Play, 2025, video still by Martynas Norvaišas, commissioned by the Jencks Foundation at The Cosmic House.
Second Image: Musarc Winter Konsert 2025. Photo: Yiannis Katsaris
Doors 5pm, performance at 5.30pm
Doors 7.30pm, performance 8pm
Musarc performs work by Philip Glass, Lina Lapelyte, Laure Prouvost, Ben Rivers and Ralph Vaughan Williams.
Day 2 of …from one glasse to another, a transdisciplinary festival of voice and video curated by Sam Belinfante. Featuring work by Lina Lapelyte, Laure Prouvost, Ben Rivers, Ralph Vaughan Williams and Philip Glass, performed by Musarc with Patricia Auchterlonie and Plus-Minus Ensemble. Musical Director: Oli Kitching.
In Ovid’s story Echo and Narcissus play creatively and provocatively with sonic and visual image making; Echo – particularly – is able to conjure new meaning and form through vocal repetition and mimicry. Beyond profound relations between light and sound, the stories are replete with issues of emptiness and fullness of self, of absorption and reflection.
Musarc presents a series of musical vignettes that restage Echo and Narcissus’ dialogues through modern and seemingly outmoded audiovisual technology.
Further information on the programme:
In his early, rarely performed partsong; Echo's Lament for Narcissus (1895–96), Ralph Vaughan Williams teases out the temporal and synaesthetic distortions of Ben Jonson’s poem of the same name. This extraordinary setting forms the basis of a series of new reflections and voicings of Echo and Narcissus that reveal nuanced and radical approaches to both gender and audio-visual phenomena.
Recalling her recent performances and video installations at The Cosmic House (2025), artist and composer Lina Lapelyte presents a series of live and filmed fragments where performers ponder, commune, and weave new interpretations of cosmic themes.
In Laure Prouvost’s film Shadow Does (2023) we see the world through the eyes of a little girl, who in shadow play, explpres the objects of her daily life and rapidly changing habits. The film is further layered with songs by Sam Belinfante and interventions by the extraordinary singer and maker Patricia Auchterlonie. Ben Rivers takes us deeper into post-apocalyptic earth with his film Golden Cities, an extract from his award winning Mare’s Nest, based on Don DeLillo's climate crisis play The Word for Snow (2014).
The culmination of the event is a multimedia performance of ‘Vessels’, from Philip Glass’ seminal score for Godfrey Reggio’s Koyaanisqatsi (1982). Even after the excessive proliferation of timelapse imagery, now a signifier of stock video and AI slop, the music and visuals of Koyaanisqatsi remain staggeringly prophetic in the re-imagining of people, technology and our environment.
"It's not that we use technology, we live technology. Technology has become as ubiquitous as the air we breathe..." - Godfrey Reggio, 2022
Image Credits
Lead Image: Lina Lapelytė, In the Dark, We Play, 2025, video still by Martynas Norvaišas, commissioned by the Jencks Foundation at The Cosmic House.
Second Image: Musarc Winter Konsert 2025. Photo: Yiannis Katsaris
