New single: Delta + Music Video
Music video for new single Delta
Delta is the second single from my solo album Memory Islands, released on Bigo and Twigetti 29 September.
Ellie says “Delta was created entirely on my violin with pizzicato chopped up and spread across drum sample pads, allowing me to play patterns that wouldn’t have fallen naturally under my fingers. It was inspired by my father’s recovery from a coma after a cardiac arrest (he thankfully made a full recovery). As his brain fired up, memories were replayed as if happening for the first time, then filed away in the right places. In Delta, I was thinking about the electrical pulses that transmit this information around the brain. Memories returned slowly at first but then the floodgates opened. It reminded me of a TV documentary I’d seen where a dried-up riverbed filled with water after a monsoon; the water found its way through all the previously carved chasms and cracks in the bed (not dissimilar to the grooves on the surface of a brain) and then into a large river.”
The music video was made by my brother Mark Wilson. He explains the techy stuff much better than me …
“The animation in this music video is the output of custom developed Python code. The application samples audio chunks of Delta in real-time and evolves and adapts the evolution and appearance of lines, intersecting triangular formations and background gradients in response to pre-defined grouped frequency band intensity thresholds. Due to an element of randomness in vector calculation, the line animation will evolve differently each time the application is executed, so this video represents one of many possible interpretations of the audio stream.”
Download/stream single: https://bfan.link/ew-delta
Album CD/DL/Stream: https://bfan.link/memory-islands
New single: Unnamed Unseen + Music Video
Music video for new single Unnamed Unseen
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
Music video for Halyard
Video for my single Halyard.
My mate David Lefeber has created this atmospheric video for my single Halyard. We filmed boats, sea, lobster pots and some dead things in Hastings last year.
Halyard was written, performed and recorded by me in Imogen Holst's Cottage in Aldeburgh on a very dark and rainy day - I reckon you can hear some of that gloominess in the music!
Here’s some photos from the day of filming:
Nice words about Halyard …
‘... in a very short time she creates a wonderful arch and line of sound. Saving a little surprise towards the end - a beautifully poised and composed work combining electronics, violin & bass’ Errollyn Wallen, BBC Radio 3
‘A really haunting piece ... there’s a real sense of place’ Sean Rafferty BBC Radio 3 In Tune