 Magic Stones is Finalist in British Composer Awards |
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Thursday, November 09 2006 @ 02:30 PM GMT
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Magic
Stones - Robert Jarvis's sound
installation for the Millennium Court Arts Centre in Portadown, Northern Ireland, has been selected
as one of three finalists for this year's British Composer Awards in the New
Media category. The awards will be presented at London's Hayward Gallery on 24th November and
will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on Monday 27 November at
7.30pm.
Inspired by the south east corner of
Lough Neagh and its surrounding countryside, the Magic Stones installation takes
its title from a listening game played by young visitors to the Portmore Nature
Reserve who would be invited to take a 'magic stone', grasp it, and with their
eyes closed see what they could hear. Jarvis's atmospheric score is composed
from recordings taken from around the lough together with sections of an
interview with local resident, Eddie Franklin. The layered sounds tell their own
story of a countryside on the verge of change - an area being taken over by the
'progress' of our time. Magic Stones invites the listener to pause and to
reconsider this relationship.
The composition can be heard on
Robert's latest CD, released on the Motile label, together with other
compositions inspired by time and place, including Disappear - winning work in
the New Media category of last year's British Composer Awards.
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Dan Thompson
RAG