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Nov 24, 20131 min read

David Lee Morgan: Reflects on Remembrance and Silent Cacophony Intervention

Poet David Lee Morgan reflects from Boston, USA on the idea of Remembrance and his intervention for Silent Cacophony involving all manner...

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Nov 24, 20131 min read

Bow Roundabout: Duncan Menzies Bagpipes

******************************************** The Day We Saw Silence Have you ever seen it walk across a roundabout, in the morning...

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Nov 23, 20133 min read

Poet Alain English Discusses His Silent Cacophony Experience

I first heard of this project back in August 2013 at a poetry event in Crystal Palace. The organiser, John McKiernan, had met me before...

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Nov 23, 20132 min read

Word Raid - Answer the Call! David/Helen/John/Sarah 5 of 6

Word Raid - Answer the Call! David/Helen/John/Sarah 5 of 6 Resulting video from a performance at St Brides part of Silent Cacophony event...

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Nov 22, 20133 min read

Silent Cacophony in The Hague, The Netherlands

The home of International Criminal Court is in Den Haag (The Hague) and a city the RAF bombed trying to stop V-rockets being fired at...

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Nov 22, 20135 min read

A Surreal Day in the C.L.R. James Library: Silent Cacophony in Hackney

A Surreal Day in the Library: Silent Cacophony in Hackney, by Nik Storey via email Nik Storey here, Maria Alvarez Echenique is my better...

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Nov 22, 20132 min read

Word Raid - Answer the Call! Alex 4 of 6

Resulting video from a performance at St Brides part of Silent Cacophony event - 11th Nov 2013 David Lee Morgan performing is...

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Nov 19, 20132 min read

Daniel McClennan is Still in a Bit of a Haze…

'Still in a bit of a haze… The event (for me) passed incredibly quickly once it got into motion, I spent most of the late afternoon in...

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Nov 19, 20132 min read

Bethnal Green Tube Disaster in Music and Poetry

Poet, Jude Cowan Montague discusses her intervention at Bethnal Green Tube Station, based on the oral history of Alf Morris. ...

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Nov 19, 20131 min read

Silence of Knitting: Liz Hide Reflects Poignantly in Liverpool

As part of Dawn Cole's Silence of Knitting, Liz Hide took the bankside of the River Mersey to knit her shamrock and reflects poignantly...

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Nov 18, 20132 min read

Silent Cacophony A Week On, by John McKiernan

It is a week since Silent Cacophony and much is still arriving from artists and others involved, yet what is already clear is that this...

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Nov 16, 20131 min read

Word Raid - Answer the Call! Gary 3 of 6

Word Raid - Answer the Call! Gary 3 of 6 Resulting video from a performance at St Brides part of Silent Cacophony event - 11th Nov 2013...

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Nov 15, 20132 min read

No Cursor on a Manual Typewriter

Multi-award winning American poet, Nancy Esposito discusses the lead up to her collaborations with Liam Donovan, a PhD Candidate, Queen...

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Nov 15, 20134 min read

Silence of Knitting Video in Ticehurst, East Sussex

Much came out of Silent Cacophony, one of the more unexpected triumphs was the way Dawn Cole’s ‘Silence of Knitting’ spun into its own...

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Nov 14, 20131 min read

Word Raid - Answer the Call! Neil 2 of 6

Word Raid - Answer the Call! Neil 2 of 6 Resulting video from a performance at St Brides part of Silent Cacophony event - 11th Nov 2013...

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Nov 12, 20132 min read

Word Raid - Answer the Call! Rudy 1 of 6

First of six videos, Platform-7’s John McKiernan gives a short introduction of his personal views of this intervention David Lee Morgan...

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Nov 10, 20132 min read

"Crash 2' projections onto Tate Britain

Two and half years ago creator of Silent Cacophony, John McKiernan, saw Daniel McClennan’s film 'Crash 2' at the Goldsmiths BA final...

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Nov 10, 20131 min read

Defusing Landmines: Firsthand Account From Lebanon for Silent Cacophony 2013

A first hand account recorded this morning somewhere in Lebanon especially for Silent Cacophony, “my work is destroying these weapons of...

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Nov 10, 20131 min read

Lost Anchor

Artists Ben Burtenshaw and Tess Faria are in search of the Deptford missing anchor. Tomorrow morning a contingent of fourteen people...

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Nov 10, 20131 min read

An Evocation of One Man's Experience of The Bethnal Green Tube Disaster in Music and Poetry

Bethnal Green: Jude Cowan Montague Outside Bethnal Green Tube Station and St John's church, E2 9PA Time: 9.30am, 10.30am & 11.30am The...

With Covid-19 ravaging populations and the World trying to come to terms with lockdown reality, it seems an appropriate moment to reactivate this Platform-7 project from 2013 exploring the trauma that follows on from a sudden shocking change in circumstance.

David Lee Morgan: Reflects on Remembrance and Silent Cacophony Intervention

Bow Roundabout: Duncan Menzies Bagpipes

Poet Alain English Discusses His Silent Cacophony Experience

Word Raid - Answer the Call! David/Helen/John/Sarah 5 of 6

Silent Cacophony in The Hague, The Netherlands

A Surreal Day in the C.L.R. James Library: Silent Cacophony in Hackney

Word Raid - Answer the Call! Alex 4 of 6

Daniel McClennan is Still in a Bit of a Haze…

Bethnal Green Tube Disaster in Music and Poetry

Silence of Knitting: Liz Hide Reflects Poignantly in Liverpool

Silent Cacophony A Week On, by John McKiernan

Word Raid - Answer the Call! Gary 3 of 6

No Cursor on a Manual Typewriter

Silence of Knitting Video in Ticehurst, East Sussex

Word Raid - Answer the Call! Neil 2 of 6

Word Raid - Answer the Call! Rudy 1 of 6

"Crash 2' projections onto Tate Britain

Defusing Landmines: Firsthand Account From Lebanon for Silent Cacophony 2013

Lost Anchor

An Evocation of One Man's Experience of The Bethnal Green Tube Disaster in Music and Poetry

11th November 2013