PULp
 Tower Bridge

When I met Paul Burwell at Butlers Wharf in 1976 I was exploring sound as shadows, using a drum-kit with metal drumsticks wired to a car battery, which I drummed to close different circuits to create changing light patterns so that shadows danced around the room depending on which circuit was closed. I worked with Paul to make the system more complex and then we used it in an event when the kit was strapped onto a boat and rowed under Tower Bridge, with Paul drumming to create both echoes and shadows

“This duo Paul Burwell and Anne Bean, have performed in many contexts and environments. They just did a recent performance at Tower Bridge in which PB drummed in a rowing boat with drums and cymbals wired up so that they lit up with the contact of his metallised drum sticks. AB swam and vocalised around the boat with two fish attached to her shoulders and red life boat lights attached to her ankles. The whole scene was lit by flashing lights from river boats and spot lights from the balcony of the warehouse/studio they use. ‘Pulp’ is a new venture and their single captures the intensity of their live performance. I was stunned.”

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