Informal create music performances by gathering environmental data and turning it into music.

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Flood Tide - See Further Festival, Southbank July 4th 2010

The largest Flood Tide performance yet took place at the Southbank, London at 2pm 4th July 2010 as part of the 'See Further' festival at the Southbank featuring 40 orchestral musicians, voices, taiko drummers and jazz soloists.

A massive thanks to everyone that took part and to everyone involved organising. You can check out photos of the event on the Facebook Group 'Flood Tide'

and a recording on Soundcloud

Hour Angle - Summer Solstice June 21st 2010

Sonification of the moment of summer solstice. Hear the gradually changing angle of the sun as it finishes its six month northerly journey, pauses for a few moments and then starts to move south again. This performance featured an orchestra of 12 strings, wind and percussion. Royal Observatory Greenwich, Blackheath Avenue, Greenwich, London, SE10 8XJ. More..

Information for Performers

Flood Tide 2009 performances on You Tube

Video of 2009 Flood Tide performances at Greenwich Observatory and Thames Festival is available here.

Nortek sponsorship

Informal are delighted to announce that we are now sponsored by Norwegian company Nortek who provide state of the art tide measuring sensors for use in performances of Flood Tide.

FLOOD TIDE

A big thanks to all that came along to Flood TIde at Thames Festival and also to the amazing musicians that took part. There are photos of the event here.

Or read about this and previous Informal projects here

Informal acknowledge the support of Arts Council England.