Moving Forest

Moving Forest AKA THE CASTLE,  was conceived and directed by Shu Lea Cheang and Martin Howse,

A 12 hour 5 act sonic performance which mapped an imaginary Castle and camouflage forest revolt (Transmitter network) onto Haus der Kultur under Welt 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 Matthews each in 2 hour chunks with all the Main Frame artists, the Film Eater Graham Harwood, Arrows and Blood Linda Dement,  as well as G8 blockade in continuous action.

Matthews performed act 2] Betrayal (2 hours) using LiSa and Sonic_Bench developed software using a shifting matrix she fed live with the dan-bau, processings, improvised lines of falsetto performed live by the wonderful Christian Kesten – and male Scottish voice reading 37 of Matthew Fuller’s 500 slogans (old collaboration renewed) through the generosity of the awesome Tam Dean Burn.

Played and diffused from a lit stage through an eight channel sound system to conference perambulating audience, it created an ideal open laboratory show.