State of Alarm was a multi installation sound and light live performance over two nights at the Sydney Nolan Trust, in Oct 2021.
Created by Mark Anderson and Jony Easterby after a short residency at the Trust, they were joined by four long term collaborating artists Mathew Olden, Pipa Taylor Liam Walsh and Harriet Wallis.
Tuned by the landscape of West Wales, combining natural and Indusrtrial materials State of Alarm blends digital and analogue composition with sound/kinetic sculpture, video projections fire and light, to explore new creative ideas in response ‘the state of alarm’ ecologically, socially and politically we are experiencing in the world today.
Mark Anderson created a number of new pieces for State of Alarm, which with new work, and collaborating with Liam Walsh became Warning Notes.
State Alarm will be the title for a new sound installtion at the HIgh Angle Battery on the isle of Portland, commissioned by B-side Festival and part of the Weymouth and Portland Towns of Culture 2025. Mark Anderson and Liam Walsh we will be creating a new sound installation that draws on the special nature, topography and history of the site, utilising the tunnels and the landscape with a number of connected sonic interventions.. With new sound and projection pieces, text and poetry from local poets, elements from Warning Notes and two other notable works by Mark Anderson, Phantom Field and Feather Dervishes.
The audience we be submerged in a haunting and deeply resonant sound world from the dark tunnels and concrete gun emplacements to the windswept mounds of the battery landscape.
