{"id":12617,"date":"2023-11-08T12:51:49","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T12:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/?p=12617"},"modified":"2023-11-20T09:37:40","modified_gmt":"2023-11-20T09:37:40","slug":"foghorn-requiem-guinness-world-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/foghorn-requiem-guinness-world-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof Lise Autogena’s Foghorn Requiem holds Guinness World Record"},"content":{"rendered":"

Foghorn Requiem<\/strong>, a landscape-interactive musical composition by artists Lise Autogena and Joshua Portway and composer Orlando Gough, has been selected for the Guinness World Records. It holds the record for Most ship horns in a piece of music<\/strong>. The piece was performed by three brass bands, 60 ships at sea and Souter Lighthouse Foghorn.<\/p>\n

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On 22 June 2013, a total of 55 ships gathered on the North Sea to perform a musical score called the “Foghorn Requiem”. This piece of music was written by artists Lise Autogena and Joshua Portway in conjunction with composer Orlando Gough to mark the end of the use of foghorns in the UK.<\/h5>\n
The “Foghorn Requiem” was performed by three brass bands, 55 ships at sea and the Souter Lighthouse Foghorn \u2013 the last Foghorn in the UK to sound off before being decommissioned. Conducted and controlled by computers connected to each ship’s GPS, ships sounded their horns to a score taking into account the landscape and the physical distance of sound. Their parts in the musical score were timed according to how long it would take for the sound from the ship’s horns to reach the Souter Lighthouse and Brass Bands. The composition, performed live to audiences on the coastal cliffs, was played across a space of several miles around Souter lighthouse.<\/h5>\n
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This is the first time a foghorn has played as an integral part of a brass band, and the first time a brass band has played with tuned ships horns”.<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n
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Foghorn Requiem was the flagship event for the Festival of the North East in 2013 and was viewed by an audience of more than 8000 people.<\/div>\n
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\u201cWhen people were told that the foghorns were being turned off, they were quite emotional about it, and we realised that the foghorn has a huge meaning to a lot of people. It\u2019s very connected to the landscape where we live. So we decided we wanted to create a Requiem for the Foghorn. It\u2019s like a portrait of a region.\u201d Prof Lise Autogena<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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A Requiem for the Foghorn, Performed by 75 brass players, a foghorn and an armada of ships. Lise Autogena, in collaboration with Joshua Portway and composer Orlando Gough.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Positioning of the vessels taking part in the performance off the coast of Souter. Image: Lise Autogena<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n