BEAT
Canal Cafe Theatre, W2 6NG , [Venue Details]A genre-bending verbatim song cycle that explores what it means to be alive.
What if you didn’t need a beating heart to be alive? This is the question composer-saxophonist Lydia Kenny and librettist-singer Olivia Bell pose in BEAT, a bold new verbatim song cycle for saxophone, bass clarinet, harp, vibraphone, voice and electronics.
Blending electro-acoustic sound with a libretto stitched from first-hand interviews and a vast array of documentary sources, from medieval potions to last rites, BEAT probes the edges of life, death and the strange pulse that binds us together.
The work draws on an eclectic archive: from newspaper cuttings to NHS leaflets on leeches, Instagram callouts, overheard conversations on late-night trains and TED talks on frozen frogs. Kenny and Bell also weave in moving testimony from those who work in end of life care and sacred texts from across multiple faith traditions, exploring how different cultures mark the transition between presence and absence, body and spirit, heartbeat and silence.
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Min: £10.00
Max: £15.00
Performer name: Lydia Kenny, Olivia Bell
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A genre-bending verbatim song cycle that explores what it means to be alive.
What if you didn’t need a beating heart to be alive? This is the question composer-saxophonist Lydia Kenny and librettist-singer Olivia Bell pose in BEAT, a bold new verbatim song cycle for saxophone, bass clarinet, harp, vibraphone, voice and electronics.
Blending electro-acoustic sound with a libretto stitched from first-hand interviews and a vast array of documentary sources, from medieval potions to last rites, BEAT probes the edges of life, death and the strange pulse that binds us together.
The work draws on an eclectic archive: from newspaper cuttings to NHS leaflets on leeches, Instagram callouts, overheard conversations on late-night trains and TED talks on frozen frogs. Kenny and Bell also weave in moving testimony from those who work in end of life care and sacred texts from across multiple faith traditions, exploring how different cultures mark the transition between presence and absence, body and spirit, heartbeat and silence.
Admission
Min: £10.00
Max: £15.00
Performer name: Lydia Kenny, Olivia Bell
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