Event overview
*NB Change of Venue*
Part of the Lands and Genotypes project, The Golem of Hereford is a generative soundscape composition that explores the capture, construction, and boundaries of testimony, narrative, beliefs, and memory.
It began with the search for the remains of a small group of people who lived on Maylord Street (then called Jewry Lane…) in Hereford, between 1179 and 1290, until they all disappeared, many without a trace.
As always, in the absence of archaeological evidence, one only finds a mythology – as told by a witness. The Golem of Hereford, silent creature constructed as a body without organs, talks to us through the voice of another, and reinvents its own history every time we listen to it.
Field recordings from: Maylord Street; the Catherdral Church of St Mary the Virgin and St Ethelbert the King; the Chained Library; Mappa Mundi's Museum; Hereford's market; Princelet Street; (London); a soldier's funeral; the Golem's house; all around Hereford.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 30 Oct 2012 | 5:00pm - 6:30pm |
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