Weeks late, but had to blather on about the missus.
She collaborated with a guy called Jason Singh to make an installation in our big church here in New Mills.
Now hold on, make no mistake - this was an art installation and in no way reflects on her beliefs, which can be summed up as such: there's no God.
Anyway back to the point. The installation was called "Waste" and Jason did some of his album "The Soul's Reward". If you can't be arsed researching him here's a synopsis: he's a professional musician who makes music purely with his voice and body. A successful beat boxer when we first met him three years ago, but now he's moved into ambient and ethereal sounds, which suited the church perfectly.
A description of the installation: about 4000 feathers hung on individual invisible threads over the main church area. They were out of reach (just) but in a strange, wonderful and unexpected way you could interact with them just by standing still. The warmth from your body would create an updraft which would make them spin gently. Add candle lighting and the huge and quiet space in St Georges church and it made for quite a spiritual experience.
We had over 100 people in the church that night, probably quadrupling the normal bums-on-pews quota. The atmosphere was just the strangest thing - people were awestruck basically. It's a big church, quite grand, and that added to it all. Some of the first words uttered: "Ethereal", "Spiritual", "Peaceful", "Mystical", "Fantastic", "Wonderful" and on and on.
Jason is the subject of an upcoming BBC documentary (Alan Yentob's "Imagine") so cameras were there, and he and Lyn were interviewed after the performance. There's a chance that interview will make it to the actual programme, but since it's more about Jason and they are going to a festival in Jodhpur as well, I doubt it. Nice for her to be asked though.
Some evidence here.
Some rather more crappy photos here, taken by me in daylight just after she finished building it.
From above - evidence of how-it's-done here
From the stage. Best view in the house
From lying ion the floor in the aisle - lots of people did this. Quite amazing.
Coming soon - she's getting a website. Excitement at fever pitch.
Bye
She collaborated with a guy called Jason Singh to make an installation in our big church here in New Mills.
Now hold on, make no mistake - this was an art installation and in no way reflects on her beliefs, which can be summed up as such: there's no God.
Anyway back to the point. The installation was called "Waste" and Jason did some of his album "The Soul's Reward". If you can't be arsed researching him here's a synopsis: he's a professional musician who makes music purely with his voice and body. A successful beat boxer when we first met him three years ago, but now he's moved into ambient and ethereal sounds, which suited the church perfectly.
A description of the installation: about 4000 feathers hung on individual invisible threads over the main church area. They were out of reach (just) but in a strange, wonderful and unexpected way you could interact with them just by standing still. The warmth from your body would create an updraft which would make them spin gently. Add candle lighting and the huge and quiet space in St Georges church and it made for quite a spiritual experience.
We had over 100 people in the church that night, probably quadrupling the normal bums-on-pews quota. The atmosphere was just the strangest thing - people were awestruck basically. It's a big church, quite grand, and that added to it all. Some of the first words uttered: "Ethereal", "Spiritual", "Peaceful", "Mystical", "Fantastic", "Wonderful" and on and on.
Jason is the subject of an upcoming BBC documentary (Alan Yentob's "Imagine") so cameras were there, and he and Lyn were interviewed after the performance. There's a chance that interview will make it to the actual programme, but since it's more about Jason and they are going to a festival in Jodhpur as well, I doubt it. Nice for her to be asked though.
Some evidence here.
Some rather more crappy photos here, taken by me in daylight just after she finished building it.
From above - evidence of how-it's-done here
From the stage. Best view in the house
From lying ion the floor in the aisle - lots of people did this. Quite amazing.Coming soon - she's getting a website. Excitement at fever pitch.
Bye
