Instrumentation

SSSAATTB Choir
Beat Boxer
Sign Language Interpreter
Lift Operator

Additional Information

LIFTED is a live elevator music installation that challenges social, cultural and aural contexts of the live musical performance "event" (Small, 1998). Featuring singers performing in public lifts throughout the United Kingdom, LIFTED is a curated experience that encapsulates many elements of musical activity. Seeking to remove the context within which one might traditionally experience a musical event, LIFTED aims to create a novel experience for audiences, from which new meanings, interpretations and relationships may arise. Inspired by and "dedicated to the lifts and elevators of Planet Earth" LIFTED draws attention to the potential of the lift as a creative space, its engineering, beauty, the people within and their inner thoughts, while creating a sense of wonder as the doors - the stage curtains - open to reveal people dressed in work clothes who burst into song. The lift is a stage, and LIFTED is the antithesis of background Muzak. LIFTED is elevator music that cannot be ignored. 

Image by Lee Thompson.

 

 

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Margate
United Kingdom

Minutes
10

Recordings

Notes
Film by Anton French
Date published
16 May 2016
Date recorded
October 2015 - January 2016
Performers
Emily Peasgood (composer), Bridget Bree (sign language interpreter), Clare Warren (lift operator), Community singers from Kent (open call)
Title
LIFTED Documentary (Full)
Venue
Turner Contemporary
Notes
Film by Anton French
Date published
3 April 2016
Date recorded
October 2015 - January 2016
Performers
Emily Peasgood (composer), Bridget Bree (sign language interpreter), Clare Warren (lift operator), Community singers from Kent (open call)
Title
LIFTED Promotional Trailer (Short)
Venue
Turner Contemporary
Notes
Film by Anton French
Date published
29 January 2016
Date recorded
December 2015 - January 2016
Performers
Emily Peasgood (composer), Bridget Bree (sign language interpreter), Clare Warren (lift operator), Community singers from Kent (open call)
Title
LIFTED Audience Trailer (Short)
Notes
Film by: BBC South East
Date published
19 February 2016
Date recorded
19 February 2016
Performers
Emily Peasgood (composer), Robin Gibson (reporter)
Title
LIFTED BBC South East
Venue
Leopold Street Car Park, Ramsgate