GOLDEN

Day 3 – Mobile Chorus – I’ve commissioned the composer Mat Davidson to translate Songs (2005) into Chorus (2006), a three minute score for five voices, for live performance. A group of volunteer amateurs arrive, and begin to rehearse in the Upper Space, led by Mat, not so much learning as singing along to pre-recorded parts on headphones. Forming and performing a seemingly impromptu chorus, the singers move from Upper to Lower Space, and into the Arch. Their singing appears to be to themselves, to degrees of self-consciousness, combining to create beautiful, harmonious interludes, the lyric, ‘golden’ repeating and echoing across the three spaces.