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Libby Heaney, CASCADE, 2022Libby Heaney, CASCADE, 2022
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. Photo courtesy of Southbank Centre 5CASCADE, 2022, live performance with live interactive AI visuals, 45minutes; in collaboration with Nabihah Iqbal. Photo courtesy of Southbank Centre 5
Libby Heaney and Nabihah Iqbal, CASCADE, Southbank Centre, London, January 29 - 30, 2022. Photos courtesy of Southbank Centre.
Libby Heaney, CASCADE, 2022Libby Heaney, CASCADE, 2022
Libby Heaney and Nabihah Iqbal, CASCADE, Southbank Centre, London, January 29 - 30, 2022. Photos courtesy of Southbank Centre.
Libby Heaney, CASCADE, 2022Libby Heaney, CASCADE, 2022
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. 

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 sound 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.