FERAL: ENCHANTMENT ON THE FRONTIERS OF REWILDING

Jon Opie / Clíona Malin [Jerwood Arts] “The film of FERAL was an enchanting and seamless cross art form collaboration between Hollie’s excellent music and her team of dance and film makers. It turned George Monbiot’s urgent text into something liminal and beautiful. As the arts tries to find ways to communicate humanity’s impact on the environment, FERAL articulated something important about the fragility of the world and our responsibility to care for it.”

Curated by Hollie Harding as part of her participation on the Jerwood Composer + Scheme.

Carola Bauckholt Doppelbelichtung
Leo Chadburn Five Loops for the Bathyscaphe
Matthew Burtner Fragments from the Cold

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John Luther Adams Three High Places
Joanna Bailie Artificial Environment No. 8
Hollie Harding (composer)/ Joshua Ben-tovim (director) FERAL

Sat 13th November - LSO St. Luke’s, 19.30. Tickets £8 | £6 Concessions (£5 under 18s)

Film, field recordings and violin loudspeakers inspire an exploration of real and imaginary environments in this multimedia concert of works considering the complex relationship between humans, sounds and ecology.

Descend through the deep sea to the Mariana Trench in Leo Chadburn’s Five Loops for the Bathyscape. Explore the interplay between piano and environmental sound in Joanna Bailie’s Artificial Environments. Experience the twin worlds of violins and birds, brought together in the UK premiere of Carola Bauckholt’s Doppelbelichtung (Double Exposure), and be transported to Alaskan landscapes evoked by the works of eco-political composers Matthew Burtner and John Luther Adams.

Composer and curator Hollie Harding will also present the world premiere of FERAL, an audio/visual piece based on the book by, and featuring George Monbiot created in collaboration with director Josh Ben-tovim (Impermanence Dance).The piece takes as it’s starting point a desire to explore some of the themes and ideas in George Monbiot’s powerful and important book Feral: Rewilding the Land, Sea and Human Life (2013), and in particular human loss of connection with the natural world. As a part of her Jerwood Composer + residency Hollie commissioned Josh to direct the film and they collaboratively devised the screenplay.

The film portrays intergenerational experiences of the moving body in evocative elemental hinterland locations. Filming took place at several locations across the UK including Avonmouth estuary, Wistman’s Wood (a high-altitude miniature oak forest on Dartmoor), and the flooded fields of Oxfordshire.

The audio seeks to weave a tapestry of text, instrumental music, foley and raw and manipulated on-location field recordings – playing with ideas of the natural, the processed, layering, association and dissociation.

Film and electro-acoustic works by composers Alwynne Pritchard and Hildegard Westerkamp will frame the concert programme.

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LSO Jerwood Composer+ is generously supported by Jerwood Arts.