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Parallel Lives: Maja Ratkje & Kathy Hinde

30|03|2010

Nathan Budzinski

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Exclusive footage of Maja Ratkje and Kathy Hinde's collaborative work, Birds And Traces. The composition was created during a week long residency at Aldeburgh Music as part of Faster Than Sound, a series of residencies set up to promote crossover between classical composers and artists working with electronic media. Inspired by the themes of bird migration, the season of Spring and climate change, Birds And Traces involved school children local to the Snape area reinterpreting Norwegian songs about birds and Spring along with making origami birds and mapping out migration routes.

Alongside the resulting composition, the artists created two installations which included research materials produced during their residency and a multimedia film sculpture. The performance featured Norwegian accordionist Frode Haltli. Parallel Voices was curated by The Wire.

Also performing at Parallel Lives was Marina Rosenfeld, watch exclusive footage of her installation and performance here.

Nathan Budzinski 30|03|2010

Parallel Lives: Marina Rosenfeld

29|03|2010

Nathan Budzinski

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Footage of Marina Rosenfeld's composition Cannons, created specifically for the space at Aldeburgh Music's Hoffman Building at Snape, Suffolk during a one week residency leading up to the performance on 20 March 2010. Cannons features a custom built sound system comprised of four large resonating 'bass cannons' made out of steel pipes fitted with subwoofers, along with two steel horns, all created in collaboration with the sound engineer Paul Geluso and the Suffolk metalwork firm JT Pegg & Sons in Aldeburgh.

The work was made with Paul Geluso and players from the London Contemporary Orchestra: Robert Ames (viola), Lucy Railton (cello) and Sarah Cresswell (percussion) and was curated by The Wire.

Nathan Budzinski 29|03|2010