Name: Podcast Episode 7 Energy by Coastal Knowledge
Duration: 20 min 54 s
Description: Welcome to Episode 7 of the Young Academy of Scotland podcast where we talk to George McGee, a diver who has extensive experience in the North Sea, Caroline Wickham Jones, an underwater archaeologist and Nick Lindsay from the Brora Heritage Society.

GGP/RMX

Open (Nathan Fake Remix)

Signal In The Noise (808 State Remix)

The WITNESS series of recordings capture key waypoints in the 2020 lockdown, with an emphasis on capturing environmental and climate conditions.
Here, air quality data becomes a performer in an ensemble with violin (Aisling O'Dea, Julia Lungu) and cello (Clea Friend)

WITNESS - new music for the anthropocene uncovered from the liminal border territories between classical and experimental music. The music is a recognition of solastalgia, the acute anxiety experienced through living through environmental change.

Witness 5

Edinburgh

Welcome to Episode 7 of the Young Academy of Scotland podcast where we talk to George McGee, a diver who has extensive experience in the North Sea, Caroline Wickham Jones, an underwater archaeologist and Nick Lindsay from the Brora Heritage Society.

Podcast Episode 7 Energy

“The whole ensemble work is the product of the data. The melodic lines, the harmonic content, the timbre, amplitude and mode arise from daily average data points for ice concentration and thickness, air temperature, pressure, precipitation and evaporation. The greatest insight here, for me, is that the data did not speak of wild fluctuations, and atonal ruptures to harmony or structure. The data spoke only of these fractional changes, a degree here, a metre there, that brings our survival into question. These compositions, therefore, seek to articulate a richly textured and complex balancing act. If we experience anxiety in listening to these pieces, it is the fear that something might actually occur to break the spell. Should these ambient works rupture, we end.” Michael Begg, 2021 

This recording arises from a commission from the OCEAN ARTic Partnership (People Ocean Planet, Blue Action, MASTs, Creative Informatics) established to bring creatives and marine climate scientists together to increase public engagement with marine data science. 

This work is the result of a collaboration with ocean modellers at the Alfred Wegener Institut. The work would have been impossible to realise without the research and data models created by Lukrecia Štulić, along with her colleagues Tido Semmler and Thomas Rackow. Thomas also provided field recordings.

Invocation

Lianne La Havas' cover of Aretha Franklin's 'Say A Little Prayer' performed and recorded on the US Blood Solo tour in Oakland at The New Parish on Feb 9th, 2016.

Say A Little Prayer

Say A Little Prayer (Live)

Excerpts from A Moon That Lights Itself by Michael Begg

A specially commissioned music work for electronics, strings and moonlight, by Michael Begg with string accompaniment. The work evokes the nocturnal life of the French painter Charles François Daubigny in his later years, floating on his boat studio, addressing, directly, the moon. 

A Moon That Lights Itself (excerpt 2)

A Moon That Lights Itself (excerpt 1)

Birds of a Feather

Birds Of A Feather

Old Songs - New Recordings 

Findhorn

Published August 29, 2020 — Explore the traditions of Scotland in a special studio concert with folk musicians Jim and Susie Malcolm. We'll also look at some of the quirkier festivals you can find in England. And we'll get you ready to cruise the inland back roads of California and the Pacific Northwest, in search of farm stands, scenic parks, and gentle touches of Americana.

For more information on Travel with Rick Steves — including episode descriptions, program archives, and related details — visit www.ricksteves.com.

612 Inland West Coast Roadtrips; Making Scottish Music; Oddball English Festivals

Coastal Knowledge is a collaborative activity between Edinburgh University, the Open University and Young Academy Scotland.
https://www.youngacademyofscotland.org.uk/coastal-knowledge/

Podcast Episode 7 Energy

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