Phantom Voices is a concert programme, an immersive one, created by composer Christopher Fox, Charles Ferneyhough and Edward Wickham, mixing live and pre-recorded elements to give some sense of what it is like to experience musical hallucinations. Ferneyhough is the Director of Hearing the Voice, an interdisciplinary project at Durham University aimed at heling us understand of hearing a voice no-one else can hear (auditory verbal halluciantions)
The audience At Phantom Voices is led through a sequence of interrelated music from Bach and Isaac to bluegrass and folk. Composer Christopher Fox explains that 'each new element will reveal itself as a re-invention of something we already know'. The audience will also be 'haunted more directly', by pre-recorded elements.
Intrigued? There is a video after the break and you can hear the concert live at the Spitalfields Festival on 15 December 2014.
The Clerks - Phantom Voices: A History of Music in Seven Hauntings from ICA Films on Vimeo.
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- Speaking & singing: Shadwell Opera explores boundaries between spoken and sung - concert review
- Virtuoso & Romantic: Academy of St Martin in the Fields plays Howard Blake - concert review
- Cello with zing: Sonatas by Boccherini and Cirri - CD review
- Naive charm & delight: Weber's Oberon - opera review
- American Masters: Anne Akiko Meyers in Bates, Corigliano and Barber - CD review
- Text-based drama: Handel's Jephtha from The Sixteen - CD review
- Early baroque polyphony: The Sixteen at Temple Church - concert review
- Window onto 17th Century German opera: Boxberg's Sardanapalus - CD review
- Early Music galore: Greenwich Early Music Festival - concert review
- Regie-theater by numbers: Mozart'sIdomeneo at Covent Garden - opera review
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