VARESE 360
Commissioned by Southbank London

team
Director: Cathie Boyd
Lighting: Zerlina Hughes

We made a series of films that were shown in the Queen Elisabeth Hall and the Festival Hall as part of the Varese 360 series of events at the Southbank Centre. Pippa collaborated with Cathie Boyd and Zerlina Hughes to create a light and film background to his music. The films became the textures and rhythms found in science and nature that Varese writes about, that his music describes. During Deserts and Poeme Electronique the whole auditorium became a projection surface as an accompaniment to Varese’s music. Five projectors onto thin screens that were suspended above the stage, and onto the walls of the auditorium.