Station house opera:The Oracle

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A description of the performance THE ORACLE by Station House Opera, presented during the Heatwave festival at the Serpentine Gallery, June 1993. THE ORACLE is a site‐specific installation of stainless steel and plastic pipes loosely fitted together, in the form of a pipeline 30m long. Sound, both language and electronic noises, is propagated down the pipeline from various sources within it. The pipes are also used as speaking tubes by the performers who exchange information and instructions for continuing their actions. Control is maintained while the pipes remain connected; when a performer's movement fractures them stability is lost. The sounds within the pipeline are released, but simultaneously isolated. The pipeline disintegrates, leading to a moment of exuberant freedom. Eventually, the same problems return, but without the same material of the physical world to lean on. The documentation covers the intended actions comprising the piece, and not interpretive questions of performance style. Technical details are missing, as is the notation of the sound. Otherwise, it contains all substantive information necessary for a restaging of the piece.

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