METHOD

The performance focussed on material interaction, sound and metal, simulating the resonant aftershock of war emanating from the artillery shells in the benchspace.

REFLECTIONS FROM A BENCHSPACE

Clint Eastwood's mysterious avenging angel, the High Plains Drifter, rode into a town that was transformed when he later rode into the sunset, and not simply because it was painted red and renamed Hell. The citizens of Lago had hired the Drifter to help preserve the silence over their complicity in the murder of the town's Marshal. Instead, his disruptive intervention created the framework for the repercussions of that event to be played out to devastating effect.

Sound and music were chosen as the instruments of intervention for the Benchspace Drifter. To what extent can music be a tool for transformation in the benchspace at the Imperial War Museum, breaking the silence that hangs over the space?