Three photos of Spacedog’s afternoon at BAFTA, where my performance on theremin was enhanced by a gorgeous psychedelic lightshow, created by artist Julian Hand. The lighting effects were all created live, in 1960s fashion, using physical odds and ends. The speckles you can see in this black-and-white photo were created by passing light through a colander. Out of shot is Stephen on bells and Jenny and Hugo the robotic vent doll on vocals.
Our performance was for the London Short Film Festival, curated by Rushes and Soho Shorts. We were there to accompany a session by Arthertz and Ridley Scott Associates, who were showing their new short film, Sonus.
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Ghosts and machines, as they were imagined in the early 1920s, when Lankins slid under window panes and families soothed their babies with Amperes from the first electric servants.
Musical and mechanical experimentalists Spacedog will be playing a selection of death ballads, darkest folk songs and twisted takes on the European song book. Live theremin, vocals, robotic dolls, waterphone, saw and assorted home-spun electromechanical oddities. With spellbinding visuals from Roger Spy and Dennis Da Silva. This event is an ArtHertz collaboration for the Rushes Soho Shorts Festival.
The show will include a live performance from two of Sarah’s creations: dolly therematrix Clara 2.0 and the Ealing Feeder, a 1920s-style robotic carillon, first seen at the Kinetica 2010 Art Fair.
At the Apple Store, Regent Street, London
5pm 23 July
Admission free but booking essential.
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At this event, you can also hear more about the Electricity and Ghosts project, staged by ArtHertz and focusing on Battersea Power Station. Coming soon to a large, decommissioned turbine hall near you!
