Vauxhall Pleasure is a multi-part protest piece being performed as part of Late at Tate Britain. Eighteenth-century music and field recordings from the complex road junction at Vauxhall Cross – which covers part of the original site of the Pleasure Gardens - will form the basis of a new sound composition.

The piece creates a dissonant sonic history of Vauxhall now and then: the Arcadian songs of Thomas Arne and his contemporaries polluted by the noise and rhythm of heavy city traffic at the site today.

Vauxhall Pleasure is a work by Anna Best and Paul Whitty, and is also part of Tempered Ground at the Museum of Garden History.

See www.vauxhallpleasure.org.uk for more information.