Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard: Silent Sound
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Silent Sound by Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard. Performance Production Still. Rehearsals with J. Spaceman. Photographed by Anne Worthington.
Silent Sound by Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard. Performance Production Still. 14 September 2006. Photograph by Anne Worthington.
Silent Sound by Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard. Performance Production Still. 14 September 2006. Photograph by Anne Worthington.
Tickets still available from the Middlesbrough Town Hall Box Office until 6pm.
Created by visual artists Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, Silent Sound is part classical concert and part public séance. It draws on the powerful psychological set-up of 19th century Spiritualist public performances and is inspired in part by Victorian entertainers The Davenport Brothers, who were famed for attempting to contact the souls of the dead using their ‘spirit cabinet’. To make this remarkable project the artists joined forces with acclaimed musician Jason Pierce (Spiritualized), who composed a new orchestral score, leading parapsychologist Dr Ciarán O’Keeffe (TV’s Most Haunted) and Infrasound specialist Steve Parsons. Silent Sound is an unmissable event creating an atmosphere of suggestion and uncertainty and has been specially adapted for Middlesbrough Town Hall, a building with its own haunted history.
Produced by AV Festival 10 in partnership with Middlesbrough Council. Silent Sound was first commissioned by the A Foundation during the Liverpool Biennial (2006).
Notice Please be aware that the contents of this performance include elements that may be unsettling to people of a particularly nervous or sensitive disposition. If you are pregnant or have a heart condition please do not attend. People under 18 years of age will not be admitted. Techniques employed during this performance include, but are not limited to, the live transmission of subliminal audio, strobe lighting and infrasound (extremely deep bass sounds). In some cases, these may cause some unusual effects. For instance, infrasound may cause some listeners to sense a gentle pulsing, to feel slightly anxious or light-headed. We can assure you these effects are mild and are unlikely to last more than a few minutes after the performance. Sound levels will be monitored throughout and will be kept within safe limits. The use of infrasound is in accordance with guidance on community noise, 7.1.4, Infrasound and Ultrasound, published by the World Health Organisation, 1995. Infrasound will be in the 10-20Hz frequency range at sound pressure levels not exceeding 120dB.