Moving Forest AKA THE CASTLE, conceived and directed by Shu Lea Cheang and Martin Howse,  is a 12 hour 5 act sonic performance which mapped an imaginary Castle and camouflage forest revolt (Transmitter network) onto HKW and the surrounding Tiergartern, Berlin on February 1st as part of Transmediale 2008.

This conceptual transformation heralded further everyday magic, with the final 12 minutes of Kurosawa’ film Throne of Blood rendered into 12 hours of sonic coded action. Meanwhile inside the Castle, a classic tale of remorse, betrayal and overthrow was underway, transformed by sound artists Mattin, Leif Elggren, Joachim Montessius, Phil Niblock and Kaffe each in 2 hour chunks with all the Main Frame artists, the Film Eater Graham Harwood, Arrows and Blood Linda Dement,  and G8 blockade in continuous action.

Kaffe performs act 2] Betrayal (2 hours) using LiSa and Sonic_Bench developed software using a shifting matrix she feeds live with the dan-bau, processings, improvised lines of falsetto - (the wonderful Christian Kelsen ) - and male Scottish voice reading 37 of Matthew Fuller’s 500 slogans (old collaboration renewed through the generosity of the awesome Tam Dean Burn) and played and diffused from a lit stage through an eight channel sound system.

Audience = conference perambulators, an ideal open laboratory show.