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Cascade: a Light Entertainment by Simon Corder
Cascade was an artist commission for an after dinner entertainment. It took place at The Alnwick Garden over three nights. The premiere was for the World Summit on Arts and Culture on 16th June 2006.
Simon Corder says: “The premise of Cascade was that a local Jazz duo had been booked to play a set following dinner. This unassuming pair regularly play small gigs around the North East in hotels and bars. In an inversion of the famous Stonehenge incident in the 1984 movie cult classic Spinal Tap, the pair found themselves playing in the midst of the spectacular Alnwick Garden Cascade in Northumberland.
“The audience was invited to walk around the installation and through the hornbeam pergolas, as a finale Will Todd performed a new twelve minute piece of music. There was an element of performance art as a waiter clambered through the cascade to deliver the musicians a bottle of Newcastle Brown Ale while his umbrella bearers made an elegant progress balancing on the walls alongside him.”
Original music was by Will Todd. Sound design was by Andy Pink, production electrician Jack Thompson (White Light), chief lighting tehcnician Dave Robinson, lighting technicians David Thompson, Petter Skranstad and Nick Woolley, fluorescent lighting Encapsulite, production lighting White Light North and production sound Orbital.
The lighting installation comprised around 150 PAR64 fixtures with Avolites ART2000 racks in two locations run from an Avolites Pearl lighting desk. The135 fluorescent fittings were IP64 with integral electronic ballasts and deep dyed polyester sleeves. The sound system was built around a d&B Q Series line-array with the long throw to the pavilion being handled by a ground stacked system consisting of two Q1's, a Q Sub and a BI bass unit, per side.
Cascade was funded by One NorthEast and forms part of NewcastleGateshead’s world-class programme of festivals and events.
Photos: Simon Corder and Chris Henderson Photography.
19th July 2006
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