Thump was originally a response to a general idea about reflections which extended into a consideration of why birds fly into windows. Birds either see their own reflection, and think it is another bird and attack, or see the reflection of the world behind them and think they can fly straight through. Thump is consequently an approach to a consideration of the other, but is also an exploration and performance of the body negotiating space and its physical surroundings, which is in keeping with Lucy Gunning’s work, for example, Climbing Around My Room, 1993 in which the artist filmed herself climbing around her bedroom-her feet never touching the floor.

Singspiel is a collaboration between Lydia White (text) and Tom Anton Zahl Bruckner Lane (composer). It was rehearsed informally by the BBC singers in June 2006 and there are hopes for an actual performance in the near future. Singspiel brings together writing and composition to explore the physical and spatial experience of singing. The audience is identified as “You”, the “keepers”, who are rained down upon by “Bell glass” (I imagined millions of tiny tear-drop containers) holding “infinitesimal infinite” (the millions of sounds produced by the singing chorus).

Using a Steinian style, as in Lying Places, I played and abstracted with language in an attempt to re-present, through experimental writing, a seemingly traditional experience of singing in a church. The choir are invited to actively and physically participate in the language, as their diaphragm’s are actually stretched, through the singing of “space a diaphragm stretch-ch-ch-ch-ch”…try it. The text can also work as a visual piece in itself, with “Produce show.show.showe.shower” visually performing the word, as it showers across the page.