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Flood Tide 2009

Sat 12 September 2009 / 2pm - 4pm

London Bridge City Pier

  • Instruments floating in the river
  • Flood tide performers infront of audience

    Alison Baskerville

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Flood Tide, created by jazz trumpeter and composer John Eacott,  is a unique open air musical performance generated by the movement of tidal water: a live sonification of tidal flow. A sensor placed in the Thames reads the river’s tidal movements which are then converted into musical notation and played live by an ensemble of 40 musicians. The piece will last for approximately two hours, and will include string and wind instruments, drums and voices.

Flood Tide is an ambient piece that aims to encourage a new kind of listening- the audience are invited to drift in and out of the music, listening for a while and then moving on, perhaps to return and hear how the piece has changed.

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see if it floats your boat…

By John Eacott on Sun 16 August 2009

Please tell everyone about this, it will be extraordinary…

By John Eacott on Sun 16 August 2009

Pass the word and BE THERE!!

By Johanna Cox on Tue 1 September 2009

We saw the Floodtide event last year. It was utterly brilliant. Be there!

By Simon Gatehouse on Sat 12 September 2009

It sounds amazing i have see the elastic band perform loads before !! They are utterly brilliant
An event not tobe missed =]

By Rebecca Langley on Sun 13 September 2009

Awesome!!

By Josue Lozano on Sun 13 September 2009

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