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Power Plant
A sound and light experience
Thursday 1st - Saturday 3rd September,
8.30 - 10.30pm, The University of Oxford Botanic Garden, £3
per night advance. Thurs £3.50, Fri £4, Sat £5
on the door
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Power Plant update:
The artists are currently planning a
UK tour in 2008. Watch this space for more details
Oxford Contemporary Music teamed up with the University of
Oxford Botanic Garden to commission 8 artists to transform
the Garden at night into an extraordinary world of sound and
light. For three nights audiences could explore the garden
in the moonlight, take a magical musical and visual journey
amongst intriguing constructions and installations around
the walled garden, water garden, plants and trees. The project
was led by Mark Anderson of artists’ collective Blissbody
who has a long history of co-ordinating and creating site
specific work in unusual locations. Combining sound, fire,
pyrotechnics and light, he created strange, subtle and awe
inspiring sonically visual installations. In the weeks preceding
the event, he worked with locally and nationally renowned
artists including Jony Easterby, Ray Lee, Anne Bean, Bruce
Gilchrist, Ulf Mark Pedersen, Kirsten Reynolds, Miche Fabre-Lewin
and z’ev to create the Botanic Garden night-time environment.
There were live performances by z’ev using Mark Anderson’s
circular saw blade installation suspended from the famous
Black Pine (said to be Tolkein’s favourite tree). Ray
Lee’s “Hum” was a series of whirling hand-made
speakers on tripods amongst the flower beds emitting eerie
hums, buzzes and insect sounds. Kirsten Reynolds created a
series of installations including a phantom fountain, with
the sound but not the operation of the fountain and her gramophones,
playing circular saw blades and sections of a tree trunk.
Mark Anderson created a number of pieces around the garden,
including the pyrophones, a group of horns emitting gas flames
which played tunes controlled by a musician and a keyboard.
Power Plant was attended by over 3000 people during the three
nights and we were blessed with perfect weather.
Some of the comments we received about Power Plant:
“Best event I’ve been to in Oxford in the last
15 years”
“Absolutely fantastic. Amazing – so simple but
so clever – ingenious”
“Magic. I smiled all the way”
“Moving, funny, sensitive – love it”
“A feast of inspiration”
“Beautifully brilliant”
“I was on my way to the pub – thank god for the
detour… A wonderful experience”
“Amazingly beautiful, a magical experience. I’ve
been twice and wish I’d come every night”
“Stunning – unforgettable”
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