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An evening of new music and film inspired by the human genome.
The Composers Ensemble (conductor: Christopher Austin) performed
'Genome', a collaboration between composer Tansy Davies and video
artist Zara Matthews. Genome is 23 minutes long and made up of
23 sections. Each section relates, in time, to the varying lengths
of the 23 chromosomes within every human cell. It was followed
by six short visual and musical collaborations written and performed
by students from the Royal College of Art, Royal College of Music
and Royal Academy of Music, which touch on the varied aspects
of life, growth and form.
The
post-concert discussion was chaired by Tom Service
Performances
Genome
Tansy Davies (music) and Zara Matthews (film)
Clonely and uncertain
Stéphane Altier (music) and Steven Langdon (film)
A delicate balance
Anton Giulio Priolo (music) and Hannah Wise (film)
Adapting
to light
Elena Langer (music) and Orly Orbach (film)
Fragments
of form
Danny Ledesma (music), Camella Kirk and Clayton Welham (film)
Farewell
to the promised land
Max Charles Davies (music), Frederico Fazenda and Daniel Mair
(film)
Astill
Adam Melville (music), Christoph Stolberg and Daniel Wescott (film)
Read a review
by Andrew Clements in The Guardian, 8 July 2003
About the On Growth and Form project
On
Growth and Form was a collaboration between video makers from
the Royal College of Art and composers from the Royal Academy
of Music and Royal College of Music, and between artist Zara Matthews
and composer Tansy Davies. Stimulated by current issues relating
to human genetics and embryology, the performance followed a six-month
period of research and exchange of ideas between artists and composers.
Their research included visits to the Sanger Centre in Cambridge,
where the human genome has been sequenced, the Lister Hospital
Assisted Conception Unit and the Royal Free and University College
Medical School to see the extraction of DNA. Research assistance
was also provided by Oxford Ancestors.
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