trempathy at adelaide fringe

​What a beautiful, powerful and haunting installation work. We were so lucky to experience the overwhelming beauty and tragedy of TREMPATHY - the shifting, living, all-encapsulating sound work and meditation by Cat Tyson Hughes. A darkened room, Salad Days inc. lit only with meditative, moody candles, the audience, or participants, were invited into the centre of the gallery space where five stools, all in a circle, surrounded a glass jar with a large candle pyre. The room was engulfed in sound, and the melodic and spasmodic noises and tunes shifted and grew, altered and flickered and was directed by Hughes at her sound station, overlooking the scene as a live set. I personally found the work amazing. It was quite emotional and haunting existing inside the room, vibrating with the god-like invisible entity of a million voices, whispers, cries and laughter. Truly a spectacular and confronting work, it was interesting to find some patrons finding peace within the space, meditating and sitting in calm silence, reflecting in on themselves with the help of Hughes’ cocktail of noise and sounds. The room, for me, was full of ghosts. Full of the reverberating hauntings of intense emotions, the scars of past regret, the silent anxiety you don’t let others hear, the overflowing joy of a unique moment in time which you feel deep in your spirit. Intoxicating and brilliant, it was an absolute pleasure to experience.