red banksia | elizabeth jigalin (performed by freya schack-arnott)
'red banksia' for solo cello an extract from CLEARWAY presented by Voices of Women composer: elizabeth jigalin http://www.elizabethjigalin.net/ cellist: freya schack-arnott http://freyaschackarnott.com/ producer/director: lliane clarke https://voiceswomen.com/ videographer: clare hawley/asparay https://www.asparay.com/ artist: rox de luca https://www.roxdeluca.com/ lighting design: sophie parker https://luminesce.lighting/ audio post production: myles mumford https://mylesmumford.com тише едешь, дальше будешь’ - ‘quietly you go, further you will’ this piece was inspired by Rox De Luca’s incredible sculptures along with text from monologues featured in the 2019 film CLEARWAY by Voices of Women. whilst composing the piece and thinking about Rox’s process of collecting, cleaning, sorting and assembling plastic found on the beach to create sculptural forms, I was reminded of the Russian proverb above. whilst composing this piece I was also thinking about the ‘crescendo’ of a walk down to the beach - hearing the wash of the ocean from a distance, gradually approaching/focusing in on the shoreline, diving in. i sketched out the structural trajectory of the piece whilst having this network of ideas on my mind. in my music, I often have enjoyed imagining quiet, subtle sounds that are intensely energetic - ‘‘frenetic silence’ as I have referred to it in a few scores now. in red banksia, this idea is translated to the cello through wrapping a piece of painter’s tape around three of the cello strings, resulting in a palette of intricate sounds that were exciting for Freya & I to explore. thanks to violinist and dear friend Jane Aubourg who helped me in testing this technique. http://www.elizabethjigalin.net/explore-my-music
'red banksia' for solo cello an extract from CLEARWAY presented by Voices of Women composer: elizabeth jigalin http://www.elizabethjigalin.net/ cellist: freya schack-arnott http://freyaschackarnott.com/ producer/director: lliane clarke https://voiceswomen.com/ videographer: clare hawley/asparay https://www.asparay.com/ artist: rox de luca https://www.roxdeluca.com/ lighting design: sophie parker https://luminesce.lighting/ audio post production: myles mumford https://mylesmumford.com тише едешь, дальше будешь’ - ‘quietly you go, further you will’ this piece was inspired by Rox De Luca’s incredible sculptures along with text from monologues featured in the 2019 film CLEARWAY by Voices of Women. whilst composing the piece and thinking about Rox’s process of collecting, cleaning, sorting and assembling plastic found on the beach to create sculptural forms, I was reminded of the Russian proverb above. whilst composing this piece I was also thinking about the ‘crescendo’ of a walk down to the beach - hearing the wash of the ocean from a distance, gradually approaching/focusing in on the shoreline, diving in. i sketched out the structural trajectory of the piece whilst having this network of ideas on my mind. in my music, I often have enjoyed imagining quiet, subtle sounds that are intensely energetic - ‘‘frenetic silence’ as I have referred to it in a few scores now. in red banksia, this idea is translated to the cello through wrapping a piece of painter’s tape around three of the cello strings, resulting in a palette of intricate sounds that were exciting for Freya & I to explore. thanks to violinist and dear friend Jane Aubourg who helped me in testing this technique. http://www.elizabethjigalin.net/explore-my-music