Libby Heaney and Nabihah Iqbal, CASCADE, Southbank Centre, London, January 29 – 30, 2022. Photos courtesy of Southbank Centre.
CASCADE, 2022, live performance with live interactive AI visuals, 45minutes; in collaboration with Nabihah Iqbal.
Musician Nabihah Iqbal and visual artist and quantum physicist Libby Heaney bottle the sounds, sights and meaning of water in an audio-visual performance.
This collaborative project was part of the Soutbank Centre’s Purcell Sessions.
Through field recordings of the Thames, AI-generated sounds and visuals, as well as music and words, Iqbal and Heaney plunged audiences into an immersive world of real and artificial water-scapes.
In Cascade the Thames served as a focal point for the pair, pushing them to explore the materiality, history, rituals and symbolism attached to rivers and water.
The project featured a performance, installation and a ound recording workshop. This project followed on from their previous collaboration, The Whole Earth Chanting, which explored the transcendental nature of human and non-human voice through field recordings, AI-generated sound and meditative composition.