Royal College of Music

Location: London, England

Type: Lighting

Stage: Completed

We worked closely with Victoria Morton on Antiphonic Waves, 2019, a new installation commissioned by the Royal College of Music Museum, London.

'The installation extends Morton’s ongoing exploration and research into composition, the abstract, boundless nature of sound, and the physicality of perception. Precisely cut yet organic, rigid yet folded, the metallic hand painted surfaces appear both weightless and potentially dangerous. The work excites a range of emotions, as experienced in some music and certain natural phenomena.

Myriad sources are drawn upon, from manuscripts of early plain song and Gregorian chant notation, to Cornelius Cardew's Scratch Orchestra’s scores for improvisation, and to the work of modern artists including Naum Gabo, Alexander Calder and Hélio Oiticica. The artist’s personal experiences in nature are equally important, and the five sculptural elements — physically static, yet visually dynamic — constitute a kind of three-dimensional score.

A synthesis of suspended colour and form, the ensemble is designed to be seen from all angles and in overlapping sequence, and, in relation to the antique instruments on display’