Points of Departure at the Brighton Festival - review

This year’s Brighton Festival began for many festival-goers, not in town, not in sunshine, but under slate grey skies in the semi-industrial rugged landscape of Shoreham Port.

The location itself was integral to a nocturnal display of sight and sound - Points of Departure by Ray Lee.

Flanked by Shoreham Power Station to the east and whopping great turbines to the west, sound artist, theatre-maker and composer Lee had chosen the perfect site.

Impressive both in size and ambition, the outdoor installation played with sound on a large scale with moving (literally) sculptures and hefty structures.

It began with a parade of tripod constructions with minimalist electronic music playing from cone-shaped speakers swinging from both ends of a pole (think H.G. Wells and with a slighly weirded out Brian Eno soundtrack).

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