Artist and musician lights up castle walls (From The Northern Echo)
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Artist and musician lights up castle walls
7:17am Friday 20th June 2008 in News
LIGHT SHOW: One of the walls during the event
A LANDMARK building in the region has been transformed by a creation from musician and artist John Foxx.
Foxx, a former member of the band Ultravox, was to have presented his audiovisual album Cathedral Oceans against the walls of Durham Castle, as part of the Durham Arts Festival.
But the weather forced the event indoors into the Great Hall, where his soundtrack was accompanied by the projection of overgrown, ruined images of statues and faces on three screens.
Cathedral Oceans is inspired by and features a variety of ideas, including the greening of cities, the beauty of nature taking over ruins, vertical gardens and the power of
