Atmospheres asked how projections might interact with our musical imaginations, providing visual cues to spark ideas and fresh interpretations.

Sharkstooth gauze suspended between the audience and performers framed both orchestra and projected visual elements simultaneously, unifying the two.

Each piece explored a different way of interacting with the gauze, helping us to explore what might be evolved in the future, and ideas were developed via workshops with the orchestral musicians.

In Quiet City, silhouetted soloists cast great shadows that represented the conflicted protagonist Copland was writing about. In Silver Falls by Dani Howard, fragments of still images gradually revealed themselves until, at its peak, a mosaic of the whole became fleetingly visible.

Ravel’s Mother Goose used bespoke animations to re-frame the morals of its fairy tales for the 21st century, with the visibility of the orchestra behind the gauze constantly changing in line with the piece’s emotional arc.