Laura Harrington and Kaffe Matthews, Where are the Wild Ones? part one (2010) Score: 12'00'' to 22'15''
LAURA HARRINGTON
‘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 will this be an extraordinary new musical experience but it will raise awareness of the lives of our rivers and the animals that live within them.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Laura Harrington is an artist and creative producer based in Newcastle upon Tyne. She works with a broad range of materials and media to make works that are open to cross-disciplinary collaboration and numerous contexts. Projects both temporary and permanent typically engage with ecology and environment. Her practice often works alongside the methods of architecture and engineering within a wider cultural context in order to explore the idea of nature and environment as a complex working of human,natural and continuously changing forces.
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 will this be an extraordinary new musical experience but it will raise awareness of the lives of our rivers and the animals that live within them.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Laura Harrington is an artist and creative producer based in Newcastle upon Tyne. She works with a broad range of materials and media to make works that are open to cross-disciplinary collaboration and numerous contexts. Projects both temporary and permanent typically engage with ecology and environment. Her practice often works alongside the methods of architecture and engineering within a wider cultural context in order to explore the idea of nature and environment as a complex working of human,natural and continuously changing forces.