Commercial St
Chiswell St Primrose St
Chiswell St Spital Square Barbican Arts Centre Beech St Appold St
Sun St St John St John St Barbican Finsbury St Carthusian St Silk St Ropemaker St
Finsbury Pavement
Carthusian St Wilson St Bishopsgate Moor Ln Brushfiled St
South Pl New Union St
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Moorfields Eldon St Fore St
Aldersgate St Aldersgate Moorgate Moorgate
Finsbury Circus Bishopsgate Fore St
Little Britain Museum Sun St Passage of London Liverpool St WEEP, O MINE EYES Finsbury Circus Hosier Ln Wood St MOORFIELDS Smithfield St London Wall London Wall
Montague St HIGHWALK
St Bartholomew’s Middlesex St Hospital London Wall Liverpool
Street Toynbee St Toynbee
Circus Pl Blomfield St New Broad St Bell Ln
Giltspur St Wood St London Wall Bat Ln Holborn Viaduct
Devonshire Square Bassishaw Highwalk Copthall Ave Wormwood St
Noble St Bishopsgate Basinghall St Basinghall
Old Broad St Camomile St Houndsditch Gresham St Guildhall THE SILVER SWAN Harrow Pl Bishop’s Ct
St Martin’s Le Grand
Montague St Old Bailey Newgate St TOKENHOUSE YARD Austin Friars Telegraph St Copthall Ave
King’s Arms Yard
Wood St
Foster Ln Creechurch Ln LACHRIMAE Gresham St Basinghall St Bevis Marks Limeburner Ln St Paul’s Coleman St Bishopsgate
Gutter Ln Ln Gutter Old Broad St Moorgate MILK STREET Tokenhouse Yard Thogmorton Ave St Mary Axe Throgmorton St
Cheapside Lothbury Russia Row Warwick Ln Warwick Lawrence Ln
Old Bailey Paternoster Square Milk St Trump St St Botolph St Mansell St Threadneedle St Dukes Pl Cheapside Bank of Aldgate Ludgate Hill Princes St Old Jewry England rd Ironmonger Ln ch Ya Bury St hur
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Queen St Alie St Bank Leadenhall St Minories Bread St NEW OYSTERS Cannon St Bow Ln Mansion House Change Alley CHANGE ALLEY Lombard St St Jewry
Cannon St Aldgate Leadenhall Leadenhall Pl Lime St Market Fenchurch Ave India St
Queen Victoria St Birchen Ln George Yard Lloyd’s Av St Mansell
Whittington Av
Black Friars Ln Friars Black New Bridge St Bridge New
Queen St Gracechurch St St Billiter Abchurch Ln Queen Victoria St Highwalk with its open courts andWalbrook connecting Lombard St AN ARTANGEL COMMISSION Cannon St St Swithin’s Ln TOKENHOUSE YARD Cullum St Peter’s Hill Peter’s King William St Sherborne Ln Queen Victoria St passageways. The madrigal was said to be The northern end of Tokenhouse Yard close to Star Alley Mark Ln Nicholas Ln Fenchurch St Crutched Friars SUSAN PHILIPSZ an attempt to imitate the sound of angels’ King’s Arms Yard. Lime St Mansion Fenchurch St Portspoken St Huggin Hill House voices, one voice replacing the other as breath The Silver SwanClement’s, Orlando Ln Gibbons, 1612 Crosswall
White LionWhite Hill was drawn, to convey the illusion of continuous Cannon Cannon St 1 minute 20 seconds, every 10 minutes, single SURROUND ME Street Dunster Ct
singing. The rise and fall of the voices in Gracechurch St Upper Thames St channel sound installation Crutched Friars Goodman’s Yard Nicholas Ln Philpot Ln
Blackfriars Underpass A SONG CYCLE FOR Queen St Minories Upper Thamesthe St madrigal suggests the ebb and flow of a tide Rood Ln Hart St
the silver swan, who living had no note, Mincing Ln THE CITY OF LONDON that builds up to a crescendo, an ocean of tears when death approached, unlockedEastcheap her Pepys St Dowgate Hill 10am – 5pm saturdays and sundays only rising and falling on a concrete shore. Eastcheap Mark Ln Tower silent throat. Gateway until 2 januaryPaul’s Walk 2011 Great Tower St leaning her breastMonument upon the reedy
King William St closed christmas day Pudding Ln Upper Thames St shore,
Queen St Pl Savage Gardens Savage MILK STREET / RUSSIA ROW Monument St Botolph Ln thusArthur St sang her first and last, and sang
Seething Ln Seething Tower surround me: a song cycle for the city St Mary At Hill At the junction of Milk Street and Russia Row. no more: Hill
Idol Ln of london can be heard in six locations, which Fish St Hill Lachrimae, or Seaven Teares, John Dowland, 1604. “farewell, all joys! o death, come close Tower Hill Cousin Ln Lower Thames St St Dunstans Hill Byward St
can be visited in any sequence. A full tour of all 36 minutes, continuous loop, seven channel sound mine eyes! Tower Hill Terrace Millennium Bridge Millennium locations takes around one hour. Swan Lnmore geese than swans now live, more Tower Hill Terrace
Blackfriars Railway Bridge installation Lower Thames St fools thanKing William wise.” St Watermans Walk Thames Path lachrimae antiquae (old tears) Byward St In Daniel Defoe’s account of the plague MOORFIELDS HIGHWALK lachrimae antiquae novae (old tears renewed) in London he describes: PassingThames Path through Mansell St Accessible via the escalator adjacent to the Lower Thames St Southwark Bridge Rd Bankside Jetty lachrimae gementes (sighing tears) Tokenhouse Yard, in Lothbury, of a sudden a Jubilee Walkway Cannon Street Moorgate Station entrance on Moorfields, from lachrimae tristesRailway Bridge (sad tears) casement violently opened just over my head, Hopton St the Barbican via Willoughby Highwalk, or by Tower lachrimae coactae (forced tears) and a woman gave three frightful screeches, of London ramp from Fore Street/Moorfields. lachrimae amantis (a lover’s tears) and then cried, ‘Oh! death, death, death!” Thames Path Weep, O Mine Eyes, John Bennet, 1599 lachrimae verae (true tears) in a most inimitable tone, which struck me 1 minute 58 seconds, every 5 minutes, four channel with horror, and a chilliness in my very blood. Blackfriars Rd Blackfriars The uniform surfaces of the glass façades at the
Holland St London Bridge
Hopton St Hopton sound installation Stamford St junction of Milk Street and Russia Row create There was nobody to be seen in the whole weep, o mine eyes, and cease notPark St a series of visual and acoustic reflections. The street, neither did any other window open, for Park St Clink St alas, these your spring tides me thinks Lachrimae is a seven part instrumental piece people had no curiosity now in any case, nor Sumner St increase not Emerson St based upon the image of a single falling tear. All could anybody help one another. The lyrics are o when begin you seven Lachrimae have been interpreted and played a metaphor for the end of an era, the end of the Southwark St to swell so high thatSumner i may St drown me in Porter St Canvey St independently, with each of the seven notes madrigalTooley or St maybe the Elizabethan musical
you? Park St Sumner St coming from its own individual speaker. The tradition. They could also symbolise the that i may drown me in you? Maiden Ln Borough High St Joiner St Gt Guilford St Guilford Gt speakers are arranged throughout the space and for end of capitalism or more general feelings of
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The setting for this four-part madrigal is the the most part the sound is abstract with the tune mourningApproach and loss. ilway London Ra Bridge Tower Bridge desolate, elevated landscape of Moorfields coming together in parts only to separate again. Duke St Hill Hayes Ln Commercial St
Chiswell St Primrose St
Chiswell St Spital Square Barbican Arts Centre Beech St Appold St
Sun St St John St John St Barbican Finsbury St Carthusian St Silk St Ropemaker St
Finsbury Pavement
Carthusian St Wilson St Bishopsgate Moor Ln Brushfiled St
South Pl New Union St
W Smithfield
Moorfields Eldon St Fore St
Aldersgate St Aldersgate Moorgate Moorgate
Finsbury Circus Bishopsgate Fore St
Little Britain Museum Sun St Passage of London Liverpool St Finsbury Circus Hosier Ln Wood St
Smithfield St London Wall London Wall
Montague St
St Bartholomew’s Middlesex St Hospital London Wall Liverpool
Street Toynbee St Toynbee
Circus Pl Blomfield St New Broad St Bell Ln
Giltspur St Wood St London Wall Bat Ln Holborn Viaduct
Devonshire Square Bassishaw Highwalk Copthall Ave Wormwood St
Noble St Bishopsgate Basinghall St Basinghall
Old Broad St Camomile St Houndsditch Gresham St Guildhall Harrow Pl Bishop’s Ct
St Martin’s Le Grand
Montague St Old Bailey Newgate St Austin Friars Telegraph St Copthall Ave
King’s Arms Yard
Wood St
Foster Ln Creechurch Ln Gresham St Basinghall St Bevis Marks
Limeburner Ln St Paul’s Coleman St Bishopsgate
Gutter Ln Ln Gutter Old Broad St Moorgate
Tokenhouse Yard Thogmorton Ave St Mary Axe Throgmorton St
Cheapside Lothbury Russia Row Warwick Ln Warwick Lawrence Ln
Old Bailey Paternoster Square Milk St Trump St St Botolph St Mansell St Threadneedle St Dukes Pl Cheapside Bank of Aldgate Ludgate Hill Princes St Old Jewry England rd Ironmonger Ln ch Ya Bury St hur
s C e
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Ludgate Hill Ln Bartholomew King St u n a
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Pilgrim St Cathedral Poultry w e Threadneedle St Royal N Exchange Finch Ln Poultry Leadenhall St St Mary Cornhill Aldgate
Watling St -le-Bow
Queen St Alie St Bank Leadenhall St Minories Bread St NEW OYSTERS Cannon St Bow Ln Mansion House Change Alley CHANGE ALLEY Lombard St St Jewry
Cannon St Aldgate Leadenhall Leadenhall Pl Lime St Market Fenchurch Ave India St
Queen Victoria St Birchen Ln George Yard Lloyd’s Av St Mansell
Whittington Av
Black Friars Ln Friars Black New Bridge St Bridge New
Queen St Gracechurch St St Billiter Abchurch Ln Queen Victoria St Walbrook Lombard St Cannon St St Swithin’s Ln Cullum St Peter’s Hill Peter’s King William St Sherborne Ln
Star Alley Mark Ln Queen Victoria St Nicholas Ln Fenchurch St Crutched Friars
Lime St
Mansion Fenchurch St Portspoken St Huggin Hill House Clement’s Ln OH MY LOVE Crosswall White LionWhite Hill MARK LANE Cannon Cannon St Street Dunster Ct
Upper Thames St Gracechurch St Crutched Friars Goodman’s Yard Nicholas Ln Philpot Ln
Blackfriars Underpass Queen St Minories Upper Thames St Rood Ln Hart St
Mincing Ln
Eastcheap Pepys St Dowgate Hill Eastcheap Mark Ln Tower Paul’s Walk Great Tower St Gateway Monument
King William St Upper Thames St Pudding Ln
Queen St Pl Savage Gardens Savage Monument St Botolph Ln Arthur St
Seething Ln Seething Tower St Mary At Hill Hill
Idol Ln Fish St Hill Tower Hill Cousin Ln Lower Thames St St Dunstans Hill Byward St
Tower Hill Terrace Millennium Bridge Millennium Swan Ln Tower Hill Terrace
Blackfriars Railway Bridge FLOW MY TEARS Lower Thames St Watermans Walk Thames Path King William St THAMES PATH, Byward St UNDER LONDON BRIDGE
Thames Path Mansell St Lower Thames St Southwark Bridge Rd Bankside Jetty Cannon Street Jubilee Walkway Railway Bridge
Hopton St Tower of London
Thames Path Blackfriars Rd Blackfriars
Holland St London Bridge Stamford St St Hopton
Park St
Park St Clink St
Sumner St Emerson St CHANGE ALLEY LONDON BRIDGE ALL HALLOWS CHURCH
Southwark St Sumner St Porter St In the centre of Change Alley between Cornhill At the Thames Path under the north side of TOWER / MARK LANE Canvey St and Lombard Street. Tooley St London Bridge, accessible avoiding steps from
Park St In the courtyard directly in front of All Hallows Sumner St New Oysters, Thomas Ravenscroft, 1609 Lower Thames Street to the East of St Magnus Maiden Ln Tower and adjacent to St Olave’s Church Hall.
Borough High St Joiner St Gt Guilford St Guilford Gt
56 seconds,Montague 2 Cl repetitions every 5 minutes, three Church, from Swan Lane off Upper Thames Oh My Love, Thomas Ravenscroft, 1609 Approach channel sound installation ilway London Street, or via an internal stair accessed from the Ra Bridge 53 seconds, every 5 minutes, four channel sound Tower Bridge Duke St Hill Hayes Ln eastern pavement of the Bridge above. All are installation NEW OYSTERS! NEW OYSTERS! NEW marked ‘Thames Path’. WALEFLEET OYSTERS! Flow My Tears, John Dowland, 1600 oh my love, lov’st thou me? AT A GROAT A PECK, AT A GROAT A PECK 3 minutes 35 seconds, every 10 minutes, single then quickly come and save him that dies EACH OYSTER WORTH TWO PENCE channel sound installation for thee FETCH US BREAD AND WINE THAT WE flow, my tears, fall from your springs! This is a very simple round of unrequited MAY EAT, exiled forever, let me mourn; love that has a charm that is immediate and LET US LOSE NO TIME WITH SUCH GOOD beautiful. Built in the 14th Century, the where night’s black bird her sad infamy MEAT, tower of All Hallows Church is like a remnant sings, A BANQUET FOR A PRINCE! from a previous age that has been left behind there let me live forlorn. in the contemporary City. The lyrics may be Once named the ‘Kingdom of Change Alley’, … interpreted as a dedication to the church or this network of small alleyways is famous as hark! you shadows that in darkness as if the church tower were calling out to the the precursor to the London Stock Exchange dwell, surrounding buildings. with the real trading conducted in the Alley’s learn to contemn light coffee houses as well as infamous as the site happy, happy they that in hell of the creation of the South Sea Bubble which feel not the world’s despite. To speak to a member of our production team Jonathan Swift recounts in his satirical verse: concerning any issues with the work please There is a gulf where thousands fell/Here all The lyrics of this beautiful song resonate with call 07982 976 596 during project hours the bold Advent’rers came;/A narrow Sound, the dark underside of the bridge and reflect its (10am–5pm Saturday & Sunday). NB this is not though deep as Hell/Change-Alley is the darker mood. The River Thames can embody an information line. Alternatively you can reach dreadful Name:/Nine times a Day it ebbs and people’s darker emotions and it is a notorious the Artangel office10 am–6pm Monday to Friday flows/Yet he that on the Surface lies/Without a place for people to disappear. As the voice is on 020 7713 1400. Pilot seldom knows/The Time it falls, or when projected out across the water it rebounds off the
‘twill rise. The idea of the trade in stocks and architecture and appears to return invisibly from For further information about surround me commodities in the City contrasts with the the middle of the Thames. The work also rhymes and Artangel see artangel.org.uk. simple selling of oysters for the pleasures of a with the instrumental Lachrimae to which it well-prepared meal. is intimately related and brings the song cycle around full circle.