Sophie
Clements

Again you show yourselves, you wavering Forms,
Revealed, as you once were, to clouded vision.
And shall I this time hold you?
Heart’s willing still to suffer that illusion?
You crowd so near! Well then, you shall endure,

And rouse me, from your mist and cloud’s confusion:
My spirit feels so young again: it’s shaken
By magic breezes that your breathings waken.

(…..)
I feel a long and unresolved desire

For that serene and solemn land of ghosts,
It quivers now, like an Aeolian lyre,
My stuttering verse, with its uncertain notes,
A shudder takes me: tear on tear, entire,
The firm heart feels weakened and remote:

What I possess seems far away from me,
And what is gone becomes reality.

(Goethe)
Excerpt from Faust

 

Gunpowder explosion filmed with multi-camera array

Originally commissioned by Dolby for their San Francisco headquarters. 3D sound mix in Dolby Atmos
Reconfigured for the Barbican in 2017