CHORALE FOR LIFTS
An installation for the lifts between Marks & Spencer and Selfirdges in the Arndale Centre, Manchester for Manchester International Festival in 2017.
“I was thinking of four-part choral inventions, soprano-alto-tenor-bass, stuff like Bach’s chord writing where one part might change by one note and it completely changes the scale and harmony of the whole thing. That’s like the lifts – they can be completely static, all at the same level, and then one changes and the balance is all disrupted. I’m thinking it’ll be pure, electronic sine-like tones that will bend in pitch as you go up and down floors. It’s about using information generated by people using functional things to affect something musical. I also thought it might be good for the shops, if people come in to play about in the lifts.”