Stillness Moving Mountain: Live Performance for Augmented Flute
Friday 10th July 2026, 6:00pm to 7:00pm
St John’s Waterloo Churchyard*
*Weather permitting. If moving indoors, the performance will take place in the Forum at St John’s Waterloo.
Immerse yourself in Stillness Moving Mountain – lie back on the lawn, close your eyes, and let the music take over. Stillness Moving Mountain is an immersive outdoor sound meditation performed by Partial Wave Child as part of Waterloo Festival 2026. Both long-form live performance and communal deep listening experience, Stillness Moving Mountain is Partial Wave Child’s second improvised composition. It features a new incarnation of the augmented flute, the symbiosis of the acoustic instrument and a purpose-built digital software environment.
It is a work that explores the tension that exists within stillness. Where microtonal and micro-textural changes that occur from the variety of extended flute technics: of air sounds, whisper-tones, harmonics, vocalisations and multi-phonics; are drawn out and gently manipulated by the digital sampler. This reductionism in form allows for an exploration of the imperfection of sound. Where the subtlest of gestures in acoustic delivery are digitally expanded upon, allowing them to exist and grow within their own right. Where the smallest microtonal shift can develop into new harmonic landscapes. And where seemingly static pulses break apart and reform into a terrain of ever-changing movement and fluidity.
A minute change creates friction, friction builds tension, tension amplifies the smallest of gestures into a shining monolith within the flow of music. Nothing goes unnoticed, everything stands out.
In an age of short form, short attention, 40-second content, Stillness Moving Mountain stimulates slow, active, deep listening. Come along, bring a picnic blanket, lie on the lawn, bring friends, relax, and immerse yourself in a meditative state of listening.
There are also a few benches dotted around the garden, and chairs will be made available for those who need them. This is a relaxed performance and free to attend. Alongside, you can also engage with this event through Moving Stillness (in response).
This workshop forms part of Mental Fight Club’s and St John Waterloo’s collaborative Interleaved programme which takes place throughout the day. If you’re coming to this, you’re also very welcome to take part in other Interleaved performances, workshops and activities. Simply turn up, and speak to one of our wonderful festival volunteers. You can also register here, if you’d like.
About the artists and organisers:
Partial Wave Child is a collaborative electro-acoustic project of live improvisation formed by artist and composer.Jockel Liess (a member of The London Group) and composer Geoixos. Follow them on Instagram @partialwavechild
Mental Fight Club is a charity that creates imaginative, beautifully crafted events for people of all mental experience to connect and create.
The London Group was set up in 1913 by thirty two artists including Walter Sickert, Jacob Epstein, Wyndham Lewis, David Bomberg, Sylvia Gosse, Ethel Sands and Henri Gaudier Brzeska, with the aim of creating a powerful artist-run group to act as a counter-balance to institutions such as the Royal Academy. The founding group created a unique structure for an organisation, that has gone on to successfully nurture the careers of many of Britain’s best-known artists.
The Bridge At Waterloo is a secular charity located at and founded by St John’s Waterloo. Through its historic building, staff, volunteers and in partnership with its neighbourhood and other organisations, TBAW promotes community engagement, the arts, and horticulture to encourage social justice, communal involvement, inclusivity, and environmental responsibility.
About The Waterloo Festival:
The Waterloo Festival is an annual celebration of arts, heritage and community run by St John’s Waterloo with the local community. Read more about this year’s programme: www.stjohnswaterloo.org/wf2026
Getting to St John’s Waterloo: St John’s Waterloo is accessible by bus, tube or train; the nearest station is Waterloo Station. Parking is available in Exton Street on pay bays, Monday to Friday from 8.30am till 6.30pm & Saturday 8.30am till 1.30pm. Payment must be made by phone or app, details can be found on signs along Exton Street. After 6.30pm (1pm on Saturday) parking is free within the bays and on single yellow lines. There are no disabled bays along Exton Street. Parking is also available in car parks in York Road and Cornwall Road, details for both can be found online.