Living Symphonies
Epic project, composed and realised by James Bulley and Daniel Jones.
Recording at Goldsmiths UoL
Living Symphonies is a musical composition and installation that grows in the same way as a forest ecosystem. Each species found in the forest is depicted by a unique set of musical motifs, and for this installation composers James Bulley and Daniel Jones invited me to record parts they had written depicting grass, butterfly and falcon. You can hear it 20- 28 July via a network of speakers hidden in the forest near Chingford Plain.
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Here’s a video from a similar installation James and Daniel did a few year’s ago.
Living Symphonies is taking place in Epping Forest as part of London National Park City Festival and Waltham Forest Borough of Culture.
It is completely free to visit, and is open from 11am to 8pm, from 20-28 July.
It is located within the Chingford Plain region of the forest, at the below map location. 51°38’25.9″N 0°00’54.7″E
Nearest station is Chingford on the Overground. There are also a number of forest carparks.
Direct! Action! Protest and the Forest
Panel discussion with me talking about the threat of enclosure during the C19th, and the people who helped save the forest, including my ancestor Thomas Willingale.
On 4 May at Leytonstone Library there is a free day of events looking at the role of Direct Action and Civil Disobedience in Waltham Forest. Includes screening by Undercurrents, Free Vegan Lunch and Direct Action Training workshop. There are only 25 spaces.
https://wfculture19.co.uk/events/directaction
As part of Waltham Forest, London Borough of Culture 2019 there will be a day of screenings, discussions and workshops to investigate Waltham Forest’s rich history of community action and protest. This will include a panel discussion with Ellie Wilson tracing the efforts of Thomas Willingale in the 1800s, whose actions kickstarted the campaign that saved Epping Forest for the people of London, through to the M11 link road protests in the 1990s, documented by the revolutionary activist video group Undercurrents, and finally drawing links to similar, contemporary direct action protest movements with Resist + Renew. Following this discussion, the audience will be invited to take part in a Direct Action training workshop and the production of a new video. The finished video will be shown as part of Art Night 2019. Free and accessible to all. Refreshments will be provided by Tegan the Vegan.
To book a place visit https://wfculture19.co.uk/events/directaction
