MIDWAY

Audiovisual Collaboration

with Tom Foskett-Barnes

(Documentary Film + Live String Quartet)

30 mins

An audio-visual collaboration with Tom Foskett-Barnes, Composer in Residence with leading keyboard manufacturer ROLI, funded by Sound and Music. MIDWAY is a snapshot of a morphing community, set against the backdrop of their building’s stunning brutalist architecture.

MIDWAY features improvisations on the ROLI Seaboard Rise by the residents of Midway House, a 76-flat council estate in Islington with a diverse demographic, ranging from young professionals and students, to council-renting families and elderly inhabitants who moved in the day the building opened in the late 1970s. The keyboard was loaded with pitched sounds recorded on the estate itself.