Eavesdropping Festival, Cafe Oto, London

• The set was recorded by BBC Radio 3 and broadcast on New Music Show 10 August 2024

• Extracts were also broadcast on Deutschlandfunk Atelier neuer Musik 21 September 2024

‘Violinist-composer Ellie Wilson plays a set which evokes both the very personal and landscapes and locations …her work braids together so many musical worlds’ - Tom Service (BBC Radio 3)

‘The weekend’s best moments mixed humility and adventure. Ellie Wilson’s set is full of personal resonances ... her grandfather’s reminiscences of the Second World War, field recordings from Epping Forest (which one of Wilson’s ancestors helped save from enclosure), electronics and improvisation on both violin and hardanger fiddle’ Wire Magazine

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Photos (c) Dimitri Djuric/Eavesdropping

Podcast: Eavesdropping Festival preview

Hear me chat to Eavesdropping curator Juliet Fraser about my chance encounter with a violin at school, finding my own soundworld, exploring layers of history, musical genres and moths.

PODCAST (13mins): on.soundcloud.com/L8VcM

I will be performing works from my latest album Memory Islands at Cafe Oto Dalston, on Friday 22 March as part of the excellent Eavesdropping Festival.

GIG: tickets can be purchased at www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/eavesdropping-festival-2024-2/
Here's a tiny preview of what i'll be performing. There will be violin, hardanger fiddle, drones, glitches, improv, field recordings and the voice of my grandad.

PREVIEW (INSTAGRAM): tinyurl.com/2m5ee7wr

New single: Unnamed Unseen + Music Video

Unnamed Unseen is the first single from my solo album Memory Islands. Written for Hardanger fiddle and electronics, it is inspired by a line from Robert Macfarlane's book Landmarks about nature words falling out of our language. “Once they go unnamed they go to some degree unseen. Language deficit leads to attention deficit.”

The music video was made by Marry Waterson, woven with hand painted film and drawing on themes of nature and fading/lost memories.

Download & Stream single: https://ffm.to/unnamed-unseen
CD/DL/Stream album: https://bfan.link/memory-islands

Singing with Nightingales

Here's last night's broadcast for #earthday #singingwithnightingales. It's a beautiful listen from start to finish but this link drops you in straight at my little piece for hardanger fiddle called Unnamed/Unseen.

Produced by the Nest Collective and hosted by folk singer Sam Lee this free audio broadcast, live on YouTube, takes you on a journey into the woods of Sussex to hear the unforgettable song of the nightingale.