Single-channel video, 7.2 surround sound (alternative stereo mix).

Alternate version performable as a live-score utilizing: bass drums, snare drum, gong(s), thunder sheet, turntable, desk fan, contact microphones, tactile transducers, and computer assistance.

Commissioned by the London Symphony Orchestra for Soundhub 2023.

Premiered @ LSO St. Lukes, London, April 2023.

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The work is the product of my discovery of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's archival footage of the American atomic weapons tests conducted between 1945-1962. These early attempts to capture this phenomenon exist here as abstract snapshots that have decayed and distorted due to the state of the film itself.

The film and fixed audio are composed of edited and collaged excerpts from this 'documentary' footage and the few existing audio recordings of the tests.

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This work, Hymn to God...In My Sickness, contains footage that has been adapted from the "LLNL Atmospheric Nuclear Tests" Collection by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, used under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Hymn to God...In My Sickness is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 by Liam Dougherty (Thomas Judd)

Premier and live-score of the work with member of the London Symphony Orchestra, April 2023. Composed and released under my birth name.