TESSELLATUM - Ambient music for short attention spans

“I set down a beautiful chord on paper and suddenly it rusts” - Alfred Schnittke

Motion is something inherent to music; it is essential to our survival as animals, and from the polyphony of Thomas Tallis up to Schnittke, Steve Reich, and Donnacha Dennehy, movement, repetition, and refraction have been an artistic obsessions of ours for hundreds of years.

In a hypnotic 40-minute meditation on the sound of viola and viols, award winning ‘demon fiddler’ (artsDesk) Dominic Stokes combines the ‘arrestingly beautiful’ music of Grammy award-winning Irish composer Donnacha Dennehy with a ground-breaking commissioned visual response by filmmaker Maria Andrews, creating an otherworldly, immersive atmosphere; elliding musical and visual lines that track a journey through London; an homage to my home, one shape from a thousand different angles.

Directed by Dominic Stokes

Produced by Rothko Collective

Date & Time: Wednesday 21st October @ 8:30pm

Running Time: 40 mins

Content warnings: Suitable for ages 12 and above, contains flashing lights

Latecomers may not be admitted. ​Ticket purchases are non refundable.

Concession prices apply to students; under 18s; pensioners; those on disability and unemployment benefits; Equity, BECTU & SDUK members.

The Bread & Roses Theatre receives no core funding and survives almost entirely on ticket sales. Any donations, help us support independent arts and theatremakers - an essential step in preserving the future of fringe theatre.