This work has been submitted to NECTAR, the Northampton Electronic Collection of Theses and Research.

Performance

Title: Production of: Requiem

Creators: Autogena, L., Portway, J., Gough, O. and Hollinshead, R.Grit & Pearl Example citation: Autogena, L., Portway, J., Gough, O. and HollinRshead, R. (2013) Production of: Foghorn Requiem. Performance at: Foghorn Requiem Souter , , 22 June 2013. A Official URL: http://foghornrequiem.org T Note: Audience leaflet C NhttEp://nectar.northampton.ac.uk/6072/ FOGHORN REQUIEM FRONT COVER

FOGHORN REQUIEM THE SPIRIT OF SOUTER Foghorn Requiem is a performance, marking the disappearance of the sound of the Foghorn Requiem is a considerable undertaking, achieved through the generous support and foghorn from the UK’s coastal landscape. Seventy-five brass players and more than enthusiasm of the region’s maritime community. But Foghorn Requiem’s tribute to the role fifty vessels will gather at Souter lighthouse to perform together with the lighthouse that Souter has played in the region has also inspired the wider community. Over the past foghorn itself. few months artists, musicians and filmmakers led by The Customs House with Co Musica have been working with local schools and community groups in South Shields and Sunderland to The sound of a distant foghorn has always connected the land and the sea; a explore some of themes within Foghorn Requiem – capturing memories of Souter and its melancholy, friendly call that we remember from childhood - a sound that has always foghorn, celebrating the landscape, flora and fauna of The Leas area around the lighthouse, felt like a memory. The sound of the foghorn is uniquely shaped by the landscape and investigating why particular places hold such power in our imagination. These projects through which it travels. Very few sounds are so loud, and heard at such great are being developed into an on-line legacy and education resource for use by schools and FOGHORN REQUIEM distances. As a result the actual sound of the horn is almost always heard softened, community groups. smeared out and thickened by the innumerable echoes and reverberations of the landscape in which it exists. The characteristically haunting tone of a distant foghorn An exhibition of artworks is the imprint of the land encoded into the sound itself, an embodiment of the created by young people and landscape and history of a place. community groups is currently on display at The Customs We have tried to create an event that incorporates this sense of the landscape and House until the 30th June. history into a musical performance. New technology will allow ships horns several The gallery is open miles off shore to play together with musicians on shore, a gathering of three of 10am - 8pm Mon to Sat the finest historical brass bands of the North East. In the performance sounds will 11am - 8pm on Sun be affected by distance, weather, and landscape, and so we have avoided using any kind of amplification. There will be extraordinarily loud moments, but there will also be www.customshouse.co.uk very quiet periods. The performance of Foghorn Requiem is therefore a delicate sound experience that will depend on the silence and quality of attention of the audience.

ORLANDO GOUGH AND THE FOGHORN REQUIEM BAND ENSEMBLE Orlando Gough is the composer of Foghorn Requiem, and is an associate artist of the Royal Opera House. He writes music for theatre, operas, plays, dance pieces and music-theatre, and also creates large-scale projects for very unique sites. Previous works including The Singing River written for performance by 12 choirs, 18 boats, two cranes and a locomotive in Stuttgart; Open Port, the closing event of Stavanger 2008 European Capital of Culture, written for 750 singers, brass band and wooden trumpets; the site responsive dance piece The Tree of Light, choreographed by Charlie Morrissey for the Cultural Olympiad; and the site specific choral piece XX Scharnhorst for HMS Belfast, as part of the Thames Festival. Conducted by Stephen Malcolm, the on-shore elements of Foghorn Requiem are performed by three Championship-level bands from the North East – Felling Band, NASUWT Riverside Band and the local Westoe Band. The ships’ horns are tuned so that the brass bands and the ships’ horns can speak in the same language - a conversation between land and sea. Like the sea itself, this music is sometimes queasy and disorientating, sometimes melancholic, sometimes warm and sentimental, and sometimes fierce, almost out of control, Gale Force 9 music. On 22 June the cliff tops at Souter are witness to an extraordinary performance. Foghorn Requiem celebrates the passing of the foghorn from the British coastal landscape and into maritime heritage, and is an ambitious and unique musical performance featuring an armada of vessels positioned offshore, the Souter Lighthouse Foghorn and on-shore musicians.

TECHNOLOGY THE MUSIC SOUTER LIGHTHOUSE – THE INSPIRATION For Foghorn Requiem we wanted and compensate for the start-up What is Foghorn Requiem 3 Warnings: Biscay, Trafalgar, 6 Saltwater Lament: Fair Isle, FOR FOGHORN REQUIEM FOGHORN REQUIEM to create a piece of music that delay on each horn. Software about? Here are some notes Finisterre, Sole Faroes, South Iceland Opened in 1871 as a way Working alongside the In an era when incorporated a whole landscape, development has been aided by on the composition by Orlando Queasiness, unease. The ships’ An epic, exhilarating, choppy, to combat the hazardous lighthouse, the Souter foghorn are being decommissioned Foghorn Requiem was devised by artists Lise Autogena and Joshua but the unpredictable delays Delta Acoustics and the Cultural, Gough: The ships assemble, horns, like a distant foghorn, difficult voyage. The music is coastline, Souter Lighthouse also played an essential role in around Britain’s coasts due Portway with composer Orlando Gough, and produced by Grit & caused by the distances between Communication & Computing sounding their horns in a give a gentle warning. The based on two Estonian seafaring was at the forefront of shipping safety along the coast to satellite global positioning the ships and the musicians Research Institute (C3RI) at pattern that builds up as they bands gradually react. Then folk songs which contemplate Pearl. This ambitious project was commissioned by the National Trust, technology, and the first between the Tyne and the systems, the foghorn at Souter would normally make playing Sheffield Hallam University. get closer to each other, then on alert. Increasing tension. the likelihood of disaster. lighthouse in the world Wear. When visibility fell below is lovingly maintained by a Council and Festival of the North East with funding music in time impossible. Sound each section of the piece is Foul weather. As the ships gather for the 7 Aftermath: Viking, North designed and built to be two miles in the daytime or the team of National Trust only travels at about 300 metres subtitled with a series of regions support from Arts Council , Danish Arts Council, Sheffield performance, the control 4 Cyclone : , Fastnet, Utsire, South Utsire powered by electricity. lights from the volunteers and is preserved per second, which means that to an accuracy of a millionth from the shipping forecast: Irish Sea, Shannon piers couldn’t be made out at to allow future generations Hallam University and The Customs House. The artists, producer and the sound of a ship horn blown computers on board form a of a second. Band Conductor A simple setting for ship’s At the centre of Souter is the 1 Procession: Humber, Fierce and unrelenting, in a night the foghorn let out a four to experience a vital piece of commissioners are also grateful to a wide range of technology and a kilometre out at sea takes network – passing messages Stephen Malcolm on shore will horns and flugelhorn of the Engine Room, a reliable and Thames, Dover cyclic pattern. The fury of the second blast of sound every maritime heritage. It was the more than a second to travel from ship to ship. As each also be carrying a modified German folksong Aus Einem instant source of power which maritime partners for their support, without which the project could The bands appear from far sky and the sea. 45 seconds to alert nearby artists’ first site visit and to a listener on the shore. To ship joins the network it will version of one of the control Seemannsgrab Da Bluhen powered the site until 1952 communicate with the other away, processing towards Keine Rosen. ships. The original single horn meeting with these volunteers not have been delivered. compensate for this we’ve modules. This will track his 5 Ma Nighean Donn As when the National Grid begun ships around it and they will start Souter. The music is solemn and was pipe-shaped and angled that inspired Foghorn Requiem. built small custom designed position and broadcast it to the Bòidche: Rockall, Malin, 8 Wake: Forties, Cromarty, providing electricity. Souter to perform tests to calculate time euphonious, and introduces a to project sound straight out computers and software network of control computers. Hebrides, Bailey Forth, Tyne Lighthouse was originally www.foghornrequiem.org delays and wind speeds. The version of the sea shanty Go to sea, but this design was to control the horns - each When the performance starts Calm after the storm. The A raucous, kick-out-the-jams powered by Professor ships will play test patterns of Down You Blood Red Roses. replaced by the twin-horns computer must calculate exactly each controller continuously ships’ horns introduce the celebratory romp. The sounds Holmes’ state-of-the-art Foghorn Requiem is produced by Grit & Pearl and is funded notes on their horns, then listen that can be seen at Souter how far in advance it needs to monitors its location relative 2 Soundings: Wight, Portland, melody of the Gaelic song Ma of a shipyard. alternating current magento- to the results with built-in today, in which the horns are by the project partners: play a note so that it will be to the conductor, and uses the Plymouth Nighean Donn As Bòidche. In electric generator which microphones. In this way they 9 Soundings: Dogger, Fisher, angled to project the sound heard in time with the band. information it has gathered The beginnings of the land-sea the original song the singer produced light by passing learn to understand the German Bight up and down the coast. to calculate exactly how far in conversation. A call from the tells of his hardships at sea; electric current between two Kockum Sonics have provided us response of the horn they are The cornets all play the call, advance it must play a note so lighthouse on soprano cornet. by the time he returns home, ‘pencils’ of carbon to create The National Trust acquired with access to their full range of controlling and build up a map independently, creating a that it can be heard in time with The ships reply to the cornet the love of his love has gone a spark. This method was so Souter Lighthouse when it was ships horns, but ships horns aren’t of the wind speeds around the melancholy miasma of sound. the band. call, and the band and the ships off with another man. effective and reliable that in decommissioned in 1988, and designed to be used as musical ships. The process may sound An exchange of chords, then the first eight years of use the As a musician on shore plays a exchange rich chords. opened it to the public instruments. To allow them to a little similar to an orchestra the foghorn has the last word. emergency oil lamp was only note on her trumpet, the sound in 1990. play conventional musical scales tuning up. used twice. Foghorn Requiem has been made possible thanks to the support of: we’ve designed special tuning from the ship horn – played devices which modify the horns’ Each control computer has a several seconds before by a natural resonance and allow us to Global Positioning Satellite computer a couple of kilometres change their pitch. But ship horns module which it uses to both away – will sweep in from across also take some time to get going track its position and as an the sea to meet her note at — they don’t make a noise the extraordinarily accurate time precisely the same moment. instant they are played. So as well signal. The time reference The two sounds then travel on as compensating for the distance provided by the GPS allows together so that the audience to the listener, the control the controllers to remain perceives them as if they were computers must also measure synchronised with each other played at the same time.

LISE AUTOGENA AND JOSHUA PORTWAY Artists Lise Autogena (Denmark) and Joshua Portway (UK) have worked together since 1991. Their projects have been exhibited worldwide, and usually involve ambitious technological installations and large-scale collaborations with a diverse range of partners. Recent projects include Black Shoals, a planetarium which runs on a live feed from the world’s stock markets; and Most Blue Skies, that uses live atmospheric data to continuously calculate and visualise the place on earth that has ‘the bluest sky’. Lise Autogena is a Reader in Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University. www.autogena.org

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RESEARCH VESSELS FACES OF THE TYNE HISTORIC VESSELS RV PRINCESS ROYAL PRINCESS SEAWAYS Operated by Newcastle University The largest vessel in the Foghorn School of Marine Science Requiem armada, DFDS Seaways’ &Technology, the 19m aluminium cruise ferry Princess Seaways catamaran RV Princess Royal operates from Newcastle to undertakes scientific and academic Amsterdam, sailing 266 nautical research from its mooring in Blyth. miles each way 363 days of the year. The university has been a partner Built in Germany in 1986 by Schichau in Foghorn Requiem since the Seebeckwerft Princess Seaways is very beginning and has assisted 162 metres in length with a capacity with testing the ships horns and of 1400 passengers and 600 cars. specialist technology. RV PRINCESS ROYAL PRINCESS SEAWAYS BUSHY BARNABY WAYLANDER CHARLOTTE

NORTH EAST GUARDIAN III SVITZER REDBRIDGE & ST OSWALD Throughout its 170 year history The Inshore Fisheries and Svitzer has been at the forefront Conservation Authorities lead, of specialised marine activities, champion and manage a providing harbour, coastal, offshore sustainable marine environment and ocean towage as well as salvage and inshore fisheries by securing operations and standby- rescue the right balance between social, services. Svitzer is a major maritime environmental and economic presence worldwide including benefits. the Tyne where its four tugs are a familiar sight. Foghorn Requiem Northumberland IFCA contributes includes the 33m long Svitzer to the Foghorn Requiem with the Redbridge, built in Hull in 1995. St. Oswald, a 21m steel mono- hulled patrol vessel built at the ST. OSWALD SVITZER REDBRIDGE RACHEL DOUGLAS CAER URFA NANCY TUCKET UPSHOT Hepworth Shipyard, Hull in 2001 and based at Royal Quays Marina SIR BOBBY ROBSON The North East Maritime Trust St Abbs. Favourite, Sovereign being extensively restored by on the Tyne. St. Oswald is used A Damon Multicat 1506 built by was formed to renew interest in and Rachel Douglas are on the Fred Crowell in his workshop in to carry out inspections at sea Mustang Marine in Wales for Port traditional seagoing activities in National Register of Historic Ships. South Shields. between its base at Royal Quays of Tyne, the Sir Bobby Robson the region, and its main emphasis Alongside them are Our Frances, in the Tyne and Scotland. was officially named in 2012 by is on the care, maintenance, One of three of the North the footballing legend’s widow East Maritime Trust’s smaller a Northumbrian Fishing Coble North Eastern IFCA is represented restoration and reconstruction of and son, Lady Elsie Robson and vessels, Royal Diadem II is a built at Harrisons in Amble by North Eastern Guardian III, wooden vessels. Andrew Robson. A versatile vessel general purpose motor coble around 1960, and day-fishing a patrol and research vessel sometimes used as a plough, The seine net fishing vessel with auxiliary sail – a distinctive vessel William D based on the equipped for acoustic ground general workboat, tug or as dive Rachel Douglas was built in 1947 Northumbrian vessel. She was Tyne – both lovingly restored by discrimination, sub-sea surveying support, the Sir Bobby Robson is for Seahouses fishermen, later built by Harrison’s of Amble in their respective owners Harry and biological habitat assessment. also a specialist dredger that keeps working from St Abbs until North 1948 and worked from Newton Chamberlin and Billy Williams. Based in , she operates the Tyne navigable by larger vessels. East Maritime Trust members by the Sea, Craster, Boulmer, from the Humber to the Tyne. saved her for restoration Blyth and South Shields. The SIR BOBBY ROBSON NORTH EASTERN GUARDIAN III to 1950s condition in 2002. Irene Patricia is a typical salmon EXCALIBUR FAIRWINDS Sovereign was the UK’s oldest coble of the middle twentieth JAMES COOK working fishing boat (in the century, and was built in the Vessels are gathering at Lizard Point off Souter Lighthouse from around The bright yellow James Cook, a 21 metre steel-hulled ketch, is operated over 10m category) when taken early 1970s by Harrison’s for a by Ocean Youth Trust North, a charity that offers young people a safe but out of commission in February fisherman working from Amble the region, travelling from numerous moorings from Amble in the North challenging environment in which to explore their identity and increase 2009. Built by Wilson Noble in harbour. She is ideal for salmon to Whitby in the South. Exact numbers and vessels will depend on the their confidence. Fundraised for locally, and built in 1987 on the Tyne at Fraserburgh in 1936, during the fishing and is smaller than the the Hawthorn Leslie yard in Hebburn as a training project for unemployed war she was called up for naval cobles used for more general weather conditions on the day, but around fifty-five vessels are expected young people at Hebburn side, James Cook celebrates its 25th service then subsequently fished purposes, though at one time anniversary this year. Over 10,000 young people have sailed on James out of Seahouses and North there were many others of including delegations from Friars Goose Water Sport Club, Gateshead; Cook in the course of the past 25 years and experienced the inspirational Shields. Favourite was formerly this size. Peggy is a typical Royal Northumberland Yacht Club, Blyth; Royal Quays Marina, North effects that sail training can have. During Foghorn Requiem pupils from a seine net fishing boat, built in Northumbrian coble, built by Woodlawn School in Whitley Bay will be on board, working as ship’s crew 1947 by Walter Reekie in Fife. Harrison’s in 1924 and working Shields; St Peter’s Basin, Newcastle; Port of Tyne; and Sunderland Yacht and skippered by Grace Metcalfe who was awarded ‘Young Sail Trainer of During the 1950s and 60s she out of Beadnell, Seahouses, Club, . the Year’ in 2012. worked out of Seahouses then Amble then Hartlepool before JAMES COOK WILLIAM D NORDIC ODIN

BYKER BELLE Adventurer Irene Patricia Rachel Douglas A four oar 22ft rowing boat of the April Legend James Cook Red Seal 2 St Ayles design, Byker Belle was created within St Michael’s Church Aquarelle Jordan Summerson Spirit of Northumberland in Byker over a 15 week period in Birti Slot Julieanne Wolseley 2012 by groups of adults recovering from alcohol and substance abuse. Blyth Venture Katrina Royal Diadem II Operated by the Byker Community Bushy Barnaby Kings Lodge RV Princess Royal Rowing Club, Byker Belle now provides local people with Byker Belle Lady Nicola Self Expression affordable access to rowing under Caer Urfa Latin Lady She Nor the bridges on the Tyne. Charlotte MVS Northumbria Sir Bobby Robson BYKER BELLE SOVEREIGN PEGGY APRIL LEGEND HLIN MOONDANCER Delphick Moondancer Sovereign Delta II Nancy Tucket Sparta HEALTH & SAFETY Eejae Naughtie Bouyz St Oswald VESSELS Excalibur Nordic Svitzer Redbridge Fairwinds North East Guardian III Trekkaway Faith Northumbria Upshot Favourite Odin Waylander Hlin Our Frances Wave Crest Holly Peggy Will Hogg Humber Stag Princess Seaways William D

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A number of local and regional organisations are working together to provide health and safety support to the Foghorn Requiem flotilla as well as representing an essential part of maritime life. The Royal National Lifeboat Institution, the charity that saves lives at sea, provides 24-hour lifeboat search and rescue service across the UK including North-East bases at , Sunderland, Cullercoats, Blyth, Newbiggin, Berwick, Seahouses, RED SEAL 2 ROYAL DIADEM II OUR FRANCES LATIN LADY LADY NICOLA Craster, Amble, Hartlepool, Redcar bases. Tynemouth RNLI brings The Northumbria Police Marine Unit School to plot individual locations the Severn-class lifeboat Spirit of is represented by Northumbria, for each vessel in Foghorn Requiem, Northumberland and Sunderland which provides the force with diving using the School’s virtual reality suite RNLI are participating with the and marine support as well as to test these plans in a variety of sea Atlantic 85 rib Wolseley. specialist training to other agencies. and weather conditions. Operating alongside the RNLI are Each of these safety and control Louise will be supported by the the ribs Jordan Summerson, Red vessels work in partnership with the Marine and Coastguard Agency. Seal 2, Will Hogg and Kings Lodge, on-shore command post, managed The Foghorn Requiem partners crewed by Tynemouth-based Red by Event Controller Louise Holman are grateful for the support of all Seal Rescue who provide marine from South Shields Marine School. the advisors including Port of Tyne safety training and event cover for Lise Autogena has worked closely Harbourmaster Mike Nicholson and a range of off-shore events. with the world-renowned Marine Herb Carol from MSTS. RNLB WOLSELEY WAVE CREST DELTA II ADVENTURER HOLLY