AC Projects/Alternative Currents Ltd Hypnosis Display

AC Projects and Cry Parrot, in association with Qu Junktions, join forces to present this deliciously mesmerising performance. Hypnosis Display is a meditation on contemporary America in sound and image.

Portland-based musician Grouper (Liz Harris) juxtaposes layers of processed field recording, choral vocal harmony and keyboard in a
resonant framework that moves behind and through Paul Clipson's 16mm film. Clipson's densely rhythmical images in turn traverse Grouper's musical language to create startling, revelatory, and critical associations.

Together they invite the audience to participate in a collective mind's-eye trip through landscapes of American myth making. The West coast, the worker, the city and the street expose both their dissonance and their ephemeral allure.

"The music of grouper creates a feeling that can only be defined as awe, an uncanny mixture of wonder and dread that nobody does better." Pitchfork

Commissioned by Opera North Projects, Supported by the Opera North Future Fund.