Powerplant

Power Plant is a specially commissioned work of sound and light installations.

It was originally commissioned by Oxford Contemporary Music and the University of Oxford Botanic Garden. The artists’ aim was to create a series of works which took their inspiration from and responded to the 
environment of the garden in different ways, working together to create a magical auditory and visual night time journey.

The installations use a wide variety of approaches from video and electronic sound to modifications of old gramophones, moving speakers, sound sources hidden in the undergrowth, circular saw blades played like gongs and balloons filled with tuned harmonicas that whispers an eerie melancholic requiem.

The result is a strange, magical and surprising night time journey through a sonic landscape which explores the relationship between sound, light and the garden environment.