Lucy Railton / Charlie Hope / Rebecca Salvadori
Not A Word From Me
Dates
sat 04 oct 2025 - 20:00
location
Rode zaal
price
€ 10 → 35
duration
1h 15' Is part of
A sensory experience in which sound, sculptural light and film intertwine
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
Not A Word From Me was developed at ICA London and premiered at CTM Festival in Berlin in 2025.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
Not A Word From Me was developed at ICA London and premiered at CTM Festival in Berlin in 2025.
Credits
cello, electronics
light design
video
coproduction