… from one glasse to another. Day 2.

Doors 5pm, performance at 5.30pm

Doors 7.30pm, performance 8pm 

Run time: 90mins

This event has unreserved seating on ground floor and balcony level. 

Musarc performs work by Philip Glass, Lina Lapelytė, Laure Prouvost, Ben Rivers and Ralph Vaughan Williams.

Day 2 of …from one glasse to another, a transdisciplinary festival of voice and video curated by Sam Belinfante. Featuring work by Lina Lapelytė, Laure Prouvost, Ben Rivers, Ralph Vaughan Williams and Philip Glass, performed by Musarc with Patricia Auchterlonie and Plus-Minus Ensemble. Musical Director: Oli Kitching. 

In Ovid’s story Echo and Narcissus play creatively and provocatively with sonic and visual image making; Echo – particularly – is able to conjure new meaning and form through vocal repetition and mimicry. Beyond profound relations between light and sound, the stories are replete with issues of emptiness and fullness of self, of absorption and reflection.

Inhabiting London’s extraordinary Stone Nest, Musarc presents a series of musical vignettes that restage Echo and Narcissus’ dialogues through modern and seemingly outmoded audiovisual technology.

Further information on the programme:
In his early, rarely performed partsong; Echo's Lament for Narcissus (1895–96), Ralph Vaughan Williams teases out the temporal and synaesthetic distortions of Ben Jonson’s poem of the same name. This extraordinary setting forms the basis of a series of new reflections and voicings of Echo and Narcissus that reveal nuanced and radical approaches to both gender and audio-visual phenomena.

Recalling her recent performances and video installations at The Cosmic House (2025), artist and composer Lina Lapelytė presents a series of live and filmed fragments where performers ponder, commune, and weave new interpretations of cosmic themes.

In Laure Prouvost’s film Shadow Does (2023) we see the world through the eyes of a little girl, who in shadow play, explpres the objects of her daily life and rapidly changing habits. The film is further layered with songs by Sam Belinfante and interventions by the extraordinary singer and maker Patricia Auchterlonie. Ben Rivers takes us deeper into post-apocalyptic earth with his film Golden Cities, an extract from his award winning Mare’s Nest, based on Don DeLillo's climate crisis play The Word for Snow (2014).

The culmination of the event is a multimedia performance of ‘Vessels’, from Philip Glass’ seminal score for Godfrey Reggio’s Koyaanisqatsi (1982). Even after the excessive proliferation of timelapse imagery, now a signifier of stock video and AI slop, the music and visuals of Koyaanisqatsi remain staggeringly prophetic in the re-imagining of people, technology and our environment.

"It's not that we use technology, we live technology. Technology has become as ubiquitous as the air we breathe..." - Godfrey Reggio, 2022

Credits:
Musarc with Patricia Auchterlonie and Plus-Minus Ensemble
Musical Director: Oli Kitching
Artistic Director: Sam Belinfante

In the Dark, We Play by Lina Lapelytė, conceived in collaboration with Nouria Bah, Anat Ben-David, Angharad Davies, Sharon Gal, Rebecca Horrox, and Martynas Norvaišas, 2025. Commissioned by the Jencks Foundation at The Cosmic House.

Musarc is one of the UK’s foremost experimental choirs. The ensemble has developed a distinct reputation for its interdisciplinary and research-led approach to music and performance, and the space it affords artists and singers to experiment with new ideas. Since its inception, the choir has collaborated with more than 130 artists and composers, including Jennifer Walshe, Keiji Haino, Jay Bernard, Lin Chiwei, Laure Provost, Ed Atkins, Lina Lapelytė, Jack Sheen, Imogen Stidworthy, Neil Luck and many others; and numerous festivals and arts organisations in the UK and abroad – including the Artangel, Tate Britain, ICA Institute of Contemporary Arts, Northampton Contemporary Arts, BBC Proms, London Contemporary Music Festival, Post Disaster (Taranto, Italy), Palais de Tokyo (Paris), the Royal Academy, CCA Goldsmiths, Museum of London, Serpentine Gallery, MK Gallery, Wysing Polyphonic, Cafe OTO and Bold Tendencies. musarc.org 

Patricia Auchterlonie is a singer and maker, interested in exploring all that is colourful and unexpected. Operatic work includes Lucia II in Beat Furrer's Der grosse Feuer (Zurich Opera), Superfan in Oliver Leith and Matt Copson's Last Days (Royal Opera House and LA Philharmonic), Child in Isabella Gellis’ The Devil's Den (Shadwell Opera and Nevil Holt Festival) and Knussen’s Where the Wild Things Are (Bamberger Symphoniker and Shadwell Opera). In concert, she has performed with the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Bold Tendancies, Britten Sinfonia, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, London Contemporary Music Festival, Snape Maltings, Weiner Festwoche, eavesdropping festival and at Cafe OTO. She was a participant in the inaugural cohort of the 2023–24 VOICEBOX programme, delivered by Juliet Fraser. She makes textiles/crafts and writes music, and with regular collaborator Hestor Dart, she has a touring project called loomeweight for two weaving singers.

Plus Minus is a UK-based group dedicated to commissioning new works alongside modern and landmark repertoire. Formed in 2003, the group focuses on performative, electroacoustic, and conceptual pieces, Plus-Minus explores experimental works, including Stockhausen’s 1963 classic, after which the ensemble is named. The ensemble was resident at University of Edinburgh from 2019 to 2024 and in recent years has performed at Whelan’s (Dublin), BBC studios, Centro Cultural de Belém (Lisbon), MINU festival (Copenhagen) and Klangspuren Schwaz in Austria.

"It is not so much the spiritual primitivism and vulgar materialism that make Musarc an interesting prospect, but their humanity, and everything that means: voices and bodies as a social technology, an apt political symbol for new forms of interactivity." - The Wire, Adam Harper, 2019

Stone Nest is an arts organisation and performance venue in the heart of London's West End, bringing exceptional and experimental art to a wide audience. A hidden gem nestled amidst the bright lights of theatreland, it offers a platform for bold, visionary artists and a space where audiences can encounter an eclectic programme of contemporary performance.

Stone Nest is an old building and, unfortunately, cannot currently accommodate electric wheelchairs. We can accommodate manually operated wheelchairs via a temporary ramp; please let us know that you are a wheelchair user when booking and whether a Companion will be accompanying you, and we will arrange a Companion ticket for you.

Image Credits 

Lead Image: Lina Lapelytė, In the Dark, We Play, 2025, video still by Martynas Norvaišas, commissioned by the Jencks Foundation at The Cosmic House.
Second Image: Musarc Winter Konsert 2025. Photo: Yiannis Katsaris