Laura Harrington and Kaffe Matthews, Where are the Wild Ones? part one (2010) Score: 12'00'' to 22'15''
Kaffe Matthews
‘Where are the Wild Ones?’ is an immersive audio-visual opera, whose music is made from the sonification of Atlantic salmon data gathered from their migrating journeys up and down the river Tyne. Mapped over a stunning visual score made from the route and geology of the river Tyne, it is a new musical experience for wide ranging audiences.
The project was initiated by Laura Harrington and Kaffe Matthews meeting and working together on RIVERS, (AV10 Festival, The Sage Gateshead) who then decided to further develop and process their mass of underwater recordings, film footage, fish scale and scientific data into new melodies and rhythms. When in residence with D6 they carried out this work by further engaging with the Environment Agency, software programmers and anglers both on the river bank and in the lab. In November they took their material to local school children to collaborate on song writing and creating the opera's libretto.
‘Where are the Wild Ones?’ was performed at three unusual and interesting locations beside the river Tyne in July 2012. Conducted over a multi-layered instrumental composition with local choir and ensemble, not only was this an extraordinary new musical experience but it raised awareness of the lives of our rivers and the animals that live within them. Please view the work here: www.kaffematthews.net/project/where-are-the-wild-ones-the-opera
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Kaffe Matthews is a pioneering music maker who works live with space, data, things, and place to make new electroacoustic composition. The physical experience of music for the maker and listener has always been central to her approach and to this end she has also invented some unique interfaces, the sonic armchair, the sonic bed and the sonic bike that not only enable new approaches to composition for makers but give immediate ways in to unfamiliar sound and music for wide ranging audience.
For more about Kaffe and her work, visit her website here: kaffematthews.net
The project was initiated by Laura Harrington and Kaffe Matthews meeting and working together on RIVERS, (AV10 Festival, The Sage Gateshead) who then decided to further develop and process their mass of underwater recordings, film footage, fish scale and scientific data into new melodies and rhythms. When in residence with D6 they carried out this work by further engaging with the Environment Agency, software programmers and anglers both on the river bank and in the lab. In November they took their material to local school children to collaborate on song writing and creating the opera's libretto.
‘Where are the Wild Ones?’ was performed at three unusual and interesting locations beside the river Tyne in July 2012. Conducted over a multi-layered instrumental composition with local choir and ensemble, not only was this an extraordinary new musical experience but it raised awareness of the lives of our rivers and the animals that live within them. Please view the work here: www.kaffematthews.net/project/where-are-the-wild-ones-the-opera
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Kaffe Matthews is a pioneering music maker who works live with space, data, things, and place to make new electroacoustic composition. The physical experience of music for the maker and listener has always been central to her approach and to this end she has also invented some unique interfaces, the sonic armchair, the sonic bed and the sonic bike that not only enable new approaches to composition for makers but give immediate ways in to unfamiliar sound and music for wide ranging audience.
For more about Kaffe and her work, visit her website here: kaffematthews.net