Memories of Fiction: The Living Library

Harrison, L. 2018. Memories of Fiction: The Living Library.

CreatorsHarrison, L.
Description

In response to research by Professor Shelley Trower, s new work by Seadog Theatre, a Newcastle-based company who make visually and spatially inventive and interactive work for specific audiences. Director Laura Bridges is collaborating with artists from London and the North East, including acclaimed set designer Eleanor Slade, sound designer Lucy Harrison and choreographer/performer Patricia Verity Suarez. The artists hope this experience will reinvigorate audiences’ appreciation for reading and for their local library, underlining libraries not merely as containers of books, but as live spaces where people come together to imagine.

The work was a combination of interactive installations and live performance all made by manipulating and developing sounds withing the oral history archive using techniques inspired by musique concrète.

KeywordsLibraries
soundscapes
interactive sound and music
new music
Year2018
FunderAHRC (Arts & Humanities Research Council)
Web address (URL)https://memoriesoffiction.org/2018/04/09/the-living-library/

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Seadog Theatre, Harrison, L., Bridges, L, Slade, E. and Trower, S. 2020. The Living Library.

The Living Library
Seadog Theatre, Harrison, L., Bridges, L., Slade, E. and Trower, S. 2020. The Living Library. Sinespace

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