BLISS XXL (Day 2): Not A Word From Me with Lucy Railton + Charlie Hope + Rebecca Salvadori

"A sensory experience in which sound, sculptural light and film intertwine"

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The new live performance Not A Word From Me by cellist and electronic composer Lucy Railton, created in collaboration with video artist Rebecca Salvadori and light designer Charlie Hope, builds on over a decade of creative exchange and friendship between the three artists. 

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Drawing from Railton’s latest body of work, Not A Word From Me creates a permeating environment where sound, gesture, image, and light respond to each other, directed by an ever-evolving sensual gravitas. 

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Railton’s use of cello, electronics, and amplified objects catalyses a multidirectional soundscape through minimal yet magnetic gestures, expanding the spatial focus and material tension of her practice into “a loud whisper.” 

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Each moment arises through synchronicity with Salvadori’s live projections - blending her signature behind-the-scenes footage with monochromatic abstraction - and Hope’s sculptural lighting, oscillating between grandeur, pulse, and quiet focus to subtly shift the audience’s sense of participation and proximity.

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Resisting polish in favour of intimacy & friction, it builds an anti-show of sorts: a space stripped of theatrical convention, where meaning arises through possibility, and presence is felt as much in what is withheld as in what is revealed. 

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Not A Word From Me was developed at ICA London and premiered at CTM Festival in Berlin in 2025.