An aural and visual excursion into both the musical fugue and the psychological ‘fugue state’, While You Sleep by Sal Cooper & Kate Neal unites string quartet, piano, electronics, video and animation in a surreal counterpoint of music, movement and image where nothing is quite as it seems.

Showing at Arts House as part of Mere Mortals. 7 - 11 Nov 2018.

https://www.artshouse.com.au/events/while-you-sleep/

While You Sleep strings excerpt

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