The Pier Arts Centre, Orkney:Thunder - Hannah Rickards

Performance: Friday, 1 October at 19.00

Commissioned by Media Art Bath in 2005, Rickards’ sound work, Thunder, will be installed in the galleries at the Pier Art Centre throughout October.

With Thunder, a recording of an eight-second thunderclap was stretched into a seven-minute passage, transcribed and arranged into a score for a sextet by composer David Murphy. The subsequent performance was recorded, and compressed to last eight seconds, and this sound punctuates its surroundings at irregular intervals. To mark the opening, there will be a performance of the transcribed score by a group of musicians who are based in Orkney

Hannah Rickards (b: 1979, lives and works in London) practice makes use of natural sounds to explore notions of perception and interpretation through recorded and manipulated sounds, texts and installations

For further information about the performance of the score, please click here.