![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Above the water, the sound is more public as if it were to do with a communal consciousness.” The trio of musicians perform music to be heard both under water and above. “When you’re underwater, sound is perceived through the bones. “The novel was a very attractive to me because it deals with the desire to go back to the primordial amniotic world, to go back to being drowned.”īut what’s also important for Cahen are the differences between hearing above and below water. What is the appeal of water-based performance art? Joel Cahen of Wet Sounds reminds me that we begin our lives surrounded by liquid, perceiving vibrations and sounds. ![]() “I’ve played all kinds of weird events,” says Andrew Wright, a fellow member of Chelmsford’s Resonance arts collective, “but never with this much water.” Who knows what we’ll encounter in this simulation of a lagoon above the submerged ruins of London? “There’s no real precedent for anything like this,” says Chris Adam, one of the three musicians who have composed a synthesiser score for the adaptation. Photograph: Teri Pengilley/The Guardianįinally, a municipal charon allows us into the water. Participants wait to enter the water for The Drowned World at Riverside leisure centre in Chelmsford. ![]()
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