Beacons (Show) 2008-10, was developed as a residency and commission from EMPAC, the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Centre, Troy, New York, USA. The piece was a live and recorded multi-tracked vocal and video poem, which explored the poetry of landscapes of everywhere and nowhere. I was riding a coach at night, looking at roadworks, and as the beaming lights flew past me, I realised that at night, I could be on any road in the world… and then thought of the radio and telephone transmission towers in the far distance that I could see on the prairies as a child, and the meaning of the radio signal… Please enjoy browsing these excerpts from the show. Beacons premiered at EMPAC in 2009, and after further development thanks to a brief residency and showing at the Royal Central School of Music and Drama, London, toured to 7 other UK venues, alongside voice workshops. My favourite show was in Glasgow at the Arches.

Voices: Yvon Bonenfant. Video footage: David Shearing, Ludivine Allegue, and Yvon Bonenfant. Video editing: David Shearing Composition and artistic direction: Yvon Bonenfant. Compositional assistance and recording: Francis Silkstone. The Beacons tour was funded by Arts Council England and our host venues: Arnolfini (Bristol), Exeter Phoenix, The Arches (Glasgow), Rich Mix (London), University of Leeds, The Point (Eastleigh), University of Falmouth, University of Winchester, and others. Beacons emerged from the Beacons art video originally directed by Ludivine Allegue. Beacons was part of the Extended Vocal Bodies into Audiovisual Media research strand.