Sound and Fury

The piece runs backwards, starting with live broadcasts and working gradually back through the years to Marconi’s original transmission. Inspired by the opening sequence of the film Contact, we pictured ourselves travelling out into space 100 light years along with the radio waves.
Airwaves is a form of time travel, inspired by the power recorded sound has to take us to the actual people and events. Part opera, part documentary, part entertainment, it is crowded with contradictory voices, its density reflected the intensely busy and noisy century we have just left behind.