Multimedia, art, music - Saturday in London

The day started with a visit to a multimedia show in Deptford - outstanding work by some of our recent graduates. (Amazing to see them so early in the morning - I thought multimedia students didn't do mornings!)

Then on by bus to the South Bank. (Possibly one of the very buses seen here on Waterloo Bridge.)


Visitors were enjoying this artwork by Jeppe Hein. Jets of water randomly switching on and off create rooms in which one is confined until one of the walls suddenly disappears, cueing a mad scramble to get in or out before it restarts.
On to the music - Charivari Agréable playing Telemann and others; polyphony from seventeenth century Portugal; then the sensational band La Serenissima playing Vivaldi Concertos - Adrian Chandler making light of some very virtuosic writing for the violin, and Mhairi Lawson with her gorgeous voice throwing off some beautiful and dramatic arias:

Alma oppressa
da sorte crudele
pensa invan mitigare il dolore
con amore
ch'e un altro dolor.

Deh, raccogli al pensiero le vel
e, se folle non sei ti dia pena
la catena dei pie, non del cor!


And finally the journey home through night-time London.