Singer-songwriter Bumi Thomas and Professor Hugh Montgomery, Director of the Institute for Human Health and Performance at University College London, joined for a live music experiment and discussion exploring the connection between the emotional, the medical and the musical.

Vivid Projects, in partnership with Body of Songs, invited curious audience members to drop in, listen and observe as musicians interpreted organs of the body through live, improvised music. The audience was able to request an organ to be explored, learn more about its medical, emotional and metaphorical significance, and then ‘hear’ them as interpreted by local musicians.

Body of Songs is an ongoing project in which challenges music artists to write music inspired by organs of the body. Vivid Projects was delighted to work in partnership with Body of Songs to bring a one-off lab to Birmingham as part of 9 Evenings: Redux, a season of new collaborative commissions in which artists will critiqued, re-worked and reacted to the seminal 1966 series 9 Evenings: Theatre & Engineering.

For more information on the wider Body of Songs projects, please visit www.bodyofsongs.com.

9 EVENINGS

24 September 2015 –  24 September 2015

9 EVENINGS: Open Score

9 EVENINGS

14 June 2015 –  14 June 2015

9 EVENINGS: VARIATIONS VII

9 EVENINGS

5 June 2015 –  5 June 2015

9 Evenings: Redux

9 EVENINGS

8 October 2015 –  10 October 2015

9 Evenings: Vis-er-al

Donald Rodney, 9 EVENINGS

24 October 2015 –  24 October 2015

9 Evenings: AUTOICON

9 EVENINGS

8 October 2015 –  8 October 2015

9 Evenings: Carriage Discreteness

9 EVENINGS

14 June 2015 –  14 June 2015

9 EVENINGS: Trace