A period of research and development funded by Arts Council England culminated in M E L T A, a new interactive performance methodology fusing experimental audio-visual composition with alchemical sculptures and wearable sensor technology.

Performance is type of dream.

And dreaming is a kind of performance.

These are spaces where we make meaning in the moment and enact the unsayable.



I have developed 'live dreaming' as a method of exploring multidimensional orientation, listening and embodied sound.

The audience are invited into a kaleidoscopic, melting, fragile world where materials, bodies and sound resonate and communicate together intensely. A hypnotic explosion of sensory experimentation, shimmering visuals, extended vocal techniques and sensual, queasy sound. Everything quivers, droops, slips and bends.

Movements are precise precarious and unsettling. Corporeal granular sounds oscillate, triggered by biorhythmic and environmental data.

The ‘performance dream’ exists within porous membranes between body and material.

It gives language to my feelings of disorientation and alienation as a neurodivergent female.

I use alchemical wearable sound- material sculptures made and reformed live using ice and reusable thermoplastic, and biorhythmic sensors, to create a live body-sonic score.

MELTA features Lisa Busby (Movement and Vocals) and Robin Foster (Technical Director)