The culminating event of St Andrews Day/Night/Weekend -- held in the atmospheric, chilly moonlit grounds of St Andrews Cathedral -- was powerful proof that vision also requires explanation.
Europe’s leading light designer, Ross Ashton had been commissioned to create the most complex light and sound installation in Britain this year. The performance was a stunning mosaic of vivid images drifting across the ancient walls beneath a real, cloud-circled moon, synchronised to a surround-sound musical soundtrack. In St Mary’s Quad, the pictures described the journey of Scotland from the Ice Age to the present. In the Cloisters the story was the journey of St Andrew’s bones to Scotland and the subsequent history of the Fife town.
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