Chartless Rudderless Night
The Museum of Scottish Lighthouses is the perfect setting for Chartless Rudderless Night – a moving image and sound installation inspired by the lighthouses of Orkney.
The work is a Tabula Rasa collaboration between choreographer Claire Pençak, composers Helen Papaioannou and Alessandro Altavista, dancers Merav Israel and Will Thorburn and moving image artist John McGeoch.
Chartless Rudderless Night expresses the collision of wave on rock, ships that pass in the night, the scanning beam of a lighthouse on dark seas and the smallness of us all in the face of the elements.
The composers drew on the mapping, individual light characteristics and rhythm of the 11 lighthouses of Orkney when composing the work for saxophone and double bass. The sound work brings a deeply atmospheric sonic environment to the dance film.
‘Really loved this piece. So imaginative and very clever. Simply wonderful.’ Audience comment
N.B. Viewable 8 Oct-9 Nov | 10am-5pm
