ABSTRACT
‘Sturzstrom’ is a vocal work that expresses in sound the formation and geology of the Jurassic Coast concentrating on the phenomena of landslips, mudslides and coastal erosion. The Great Landslip clearly had a great effect on the local population. As a spectacle, the moment of the land-slip was to be performed and re-performed in multiple ways as both local and national communities responded to the event. The fractured landscape left behind by the Great Landslip is located within the Dorset and East Devon World Heritage Site. Sturzstrom and the Landslip Festival, as responses to the Great Landslip, perform and re-construct loss at the site in different ways. The Landslip Festival demonstrated how the people congregated in creative response to the Bindon landscape after the land had slipped. The performative events of the Bindon Landslip arose out of the shifting surface of the land due to dynamic forces deeper down.
