Based on improvisations sessions and recordings, this piece was co-composed with 4 female musicians in response to a water stream recording made at  the Elan Valley - Wales - during Isa Suarez' artist in residency -Elan Links - 2022 

Musicians include:
Vocals - Isa Suarez
Flute - Lindsay Davies
Harp - Glenda Carter
Violin - Katy Lloyd
Percussion - Gill Cathles 


Recorded at Pen y Garreg - Elan Valley - Rhayader - Wales  - July 2022
Produced by Isa Suarez

Elan Voices

Seven Poet Trees

Compositions for a large-scale live installation performance with poets and Lewisham residents at Mayow Park- London

A radical tree-planting event where three poets joined young people to explore the symbiotic relationship between humans and trees

Co-created by multi-award winning artists Ackroyd & Harvey and poet Zena Edwards

Supported using public funding by:
Arts Council England
WE ARE LEWISHAM
London Borough of Culture 2022

Release date:
10 November 2022

Seven Poet Trees (extract)

This vocal piece is based on frequencies and tones taken from rattles, chants, drumming patterns, singing bowls and tuning forks

Performed and recorded by The Ora Singers @ 1,2,3 Studios - London

Copyright 2022 Isa Suarez 
All rights reserved

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Movement 4

Seven Poet Trees 

Compositions for a large-scale spectacle installation performed by poets and Lewisham residents at Mayow Park- London

A radical tree-planting event where three poets joined young people to explore the symbiotic relationship between humans and trees

Co-created by artists Ackroyd & Harvey and poet Zena Edwards

Supported using public funding by:
Arts Council England 
WE ARE LEWISHAM
London Borough of Culture 2022

Seven Poet Trees Fragment

Composition (fragment) for : ’At The Crossroads with Vincent’’
An immersive audio-walk about the human condition, madness and inspired by Van Gogh letters

"The compositions were great and the London voices were very moving… ''   Saturday Review, BBC Radio 4

Composed by Isa Suarez including:  instrumental music, sound-art pieces and songs based on Van Gogh letters

Performed by musicians from Southbank Sinfonia
Recording at Brixton Space Studios

Full 38mns piece can be wodlaonaded here:
https://soundcloud.com/artangel-2/vincent

Produced by ArtAngel and CoolTan Arts
Artistic director: R.M Sanchez.Camus
All rights reserved - 2015

At The CrossRoads with Vincent

Sound installation 2023 
Watershed exhibition  - Midland Arts Centre -Birmingham - 2023 
Isa Suarez

This piece was developed using sound recordings from the Elan valley's streams, original music and quotes from interviews Suarez had with local eco-experts about their eco-strategies at the Elan valley - Wales - UK

‘Forest Voices’ is a river’ song flowing through the currents of complex natural worlds. It aims to give a voice to land workers and ecologists from the Elan Valley. 

This piece was developed using underwater and overtones of stream recordings made in the valley, as well as woodwind and string samples. 

Local eco-experts include:

Fiona Gomersall: Ecologist and Natural Heritage Officer at the Elan Links Heritage Lottery Project.

Sorcha Lewis: Farmer who lives at the Elan Valley and with whom a wide group of farmers set-up the Nature Friendly Farming Network.

Sarah Woodcock: Biodiversity and GIS Data Officer at The Biodiversity Information Service for Powys and the BBNP (Formerly Conservation Officer (Green Connections) at Radnorshire Wildlife Trust).

Forest Voices ( Sound Installation version)

Underwater Voices is a fragment from Suarez performance :
“Soundtrack for a landscape’’
 Watershed event -Elan Valley- September 2023 

Featuring sound recordings from the Valley: streams, air and earth textures interweaved with Suarez live performance as a way to connect with environmental awareness.

Underwater Voices

Performed by Simon Taylor and Danielle Somerside for: 
''At the Crossroads with Vincent''
 by Marcelo Sanchez Camus, with Isa Suarez and CoolTan Arts 
Produced by Artangel - 2014

Twilight passions

Featured in the BBC film documentary 'City of Rape' - Africa 2020  
directed by Steve Allen - 2019 

Performed by singers from the South-African choir:
 ''The New Teenagers Gospel Choir'' - Cape Town - South Africa
Lill Brown
Mosixde Ramiso
Phelo Nqayi
Phumeza
Noziphiwo

Music composed by Isa Suarez
Lyrics by Sasha Roe
Initially composed for an audio walk podcast : 'The Brixton Munch'

Cane Song

This track was composed  for an audio-walk to be enjoyed in Brixton / London: Brixton Munch, Lyrics by Sasha Roe. Isa worked with South African choir : The New Teenagers Gospel Choir and composed the song in Cape Town following her performances with this choir at The Infecting The City Festival - 2013

Electric Ernie

Soundtrack for National Geographic Film Documentary :
''Shackleton’s Whisky''

An orchestral score composed for a film documentary about the amazing Arctic discovery of Shackleton’s lost Whisky.

Cello: Robin Michael
Keyboards: Isa Suarez

Directed by Mike Slee
Production: TalkBack Thames/National Geographic – UK/U.S.A

Nostalgia

Soundtrack composed for  National Geographic TV documentary.
Directed by Mike Slee 
Produced by National Geographic & TalkbackThames
 1 x 60 documentary series about the Arctic discovery of Shackleton’s lost Whisky. 

http://isasuarez.com/?portfolio=shakletons-whiskey

Shackleton's Whisky

Soundtrack composed for TV  : Spanish TV channel : La Sexta

A film documentary  about  the children who escaped the Guernica town during the Spanish civil war and took refuge in England. These children are now adults and recall these tragic events and also how English volunteers looked after them in Eastleigh/England.


Directed by Roberto Menendez 

Co-produced by La Sexta Television and Drive TV - Spain - 2019

Optimistic piano

Other Worlds - FIN DE SIECLE
FROM ''end of the century'' debut album by FIN DE SIECLE

Other Worlds - FIN DE SIECLE

Be Dub - FIN DE SIECLE
FROM ''end of the century'' debut album by FIN DE SIECLE
TOTEM INTERNATIONAL RECORDS
GRAPEVINE DISTRIBUTION
1996


Be Dub - FIN DE SIECLE

Letter to the Racketeers is a rap song in English/French from:
 "In Transformation' : Isa Suarez's album - 2015

Main vocals, Keyboards, Programming: Isa Suarez

Backing Vocals:  singers from the New Teenagers Gospel Choir - Cape Town- ZA: Lill Brown,Mosixde Ramiso,Phelo Nqayi, Phumeza, Noziphiwo

Full album here:
https://isasuarez.bandcamp.com/

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/29oEOPOFhzsWRYadM162Po?si=eRoxUleOQuOO7QAIhDU7Qg


TuneCore/Believe release 2015
All rights reserved

Letter to the racketeers

Cape Town Calling

Tonight (Instrumental version)

Livings Streams 'compositions will be multi-genre, including: world-music, soundscapes, ambient-electronics, contemporary, choral and beatboxing.

Here is a 3mns audio including  5 fragments taken from pieces created with and/or by  Living Streams collaborators and/or Syrian refugee women:

1. Nocturnes Wonder composed by Isa Suarez, featuring Living Streams Kimmy Beatbox, Camberwell Choir and Isa Suarez/vocals  - With Support from Arts Council England -  London 2017

2. Song Beyond the Sky composed and performed by Jelly Cleaver during her Residency as Musician at St George's Hospital - London - 2023

3. Forest Voices composed by Isa Suarez for a Sound-Installation -
including streams sounds recordings at Elan Valley/Wales, Woodwind and strings samples - exhibited at Watershed Art exhibition - MAC Birmingham - 2023
( as part of her artist residency - Elan Valley 2022 - Wales)

4. Voices composed by Isa Suarez (Vocals/Programming/Mixing)) 
for her 'In Transformation' Album  -featuring musicians from South Africa and Mozambique including: Brydon Bolton/Double bass;Brendon Bussy/Mandolin;Walter Zand/Percussion - Cape Town - ZA - 2014
( Following artist in residency at Greatmore Studios - 2009)

5. My Dreams for Tomorrow, co-composed by Isa Suarez and Syrian Women - Refugee Camp - Lebanon- as part of a humanitarian participatory project by Artmongers  and supported by War Child

Living Streams 3mns Music Examples

Circle Theme 2

This piece is part of ''And While London Burns'': an audio opera for one

Direction and Libretto by John Jordan and James Marriott
Produced by Platform London

Performed by :
Soprano singer Deborah Stoddard
Robin Michael /Cello
Alan Barnes/ Clarinet


And While London Burns is an acclaimed downloadable opera-for-one. Part-fiction, part-fact, the story is a gripping walking tour through the heart of London's financial district looking at London's business impacts on climate change. Some buildings and paths have changed, but the walk and absorbing soundscape starring BAFTA-award-winning actor Douglas Hodge, still works.

Circling Theme

Composed for ''Paths through Utopias'': a feature film documentary about European communities who live outside of the established system


Piano: Isa Suarez
Directed by Isabelle Frémeaux, John Jordan, Kyp Kyprianous
Production : Zones/La Découverte – U.K/France - 2011

Utopia Fast Piano

Soundtrack for TV Documentary: ''Guernica Children's memories''
(”Los niños de Guernica tienen memoria”)
Piano: Isa Suarez
Directed by Roberto Menendez
Co -produced by La Sexta and Drive Tv – Spain

Piano Optimistic

Composition (fragment) for : ’At The Crossroads with Vincent’’

An immersive audio-walk that reimagines the emotional landscape of Vincent van Gogh's London. 


"The compositions were great and the London voices were very moving… '' Saturday Review, BBC Radio 4

Composed by Isa Suarez including: instrumental music, sound-art pieces and songs based on Van Gogh letters

Performed by musicians from Southbank Sinfonia
Recording at Brixton Space Studios

Produced by ArtAngel and CoolTan Arts
Artistic director: R.M Sanchez.Camus
All rights reserved

Listen to the full piece here (38mns): 
https://soundcloud.com/artangel-2/vincent

At the Crossroads with Vincent (fragment)

Guernica film documentary  Theme1

Nocturnes Wonder is an open invitation to a musical journey that runs through the night. Composed and produced by Isa Suarez - 2019 -

Combining beatboxing, choral voices, electronic music and orchestral arrangements, Nocturnes Wonder is a free downloadable suite of musical movements which draws out the ways music can affect and reflect our perceptions of reality. It explores how music can affect our minds and everyday moods. You can enjoy Nocturnes Wonder at night, wherever you are in the world: while travelling, walking in a forest, in the streets or relaxing at home.

Credits:
Vocals: The Camberwell Community Choir, Aaron Pilgrim, Isa Suarez
Beatboxing: KimmyBeatbox
Keyboards and Electronics: Isa Suarez
Choir Conductor: Aga Serugo –Lugo
Mixing and Programming: Ezra Lloyd Jackson and Isa Suarez
Additional Mixing and Programming: Tom Gillieron
Recorded and Mixed at Flying Studios, London
Recording of the Camberwell Community Choir at The Jazz Crypt, London: Cassandra Rutledge


Nocturnes Wonder Full piece free download: (28mns)
https://soundcloud.com/isasuarez-works/nocturnes-wonder/


Nocturnes Wonder is a project conceived and produced by Isa Suarez in partnership with CoolTan Arts and Camberwell Arts and with public funding from Arts Council England.


All Rights reserved 2019

Nocturnes Wonder (extract)

Peacefull is an extract from ''Nocturnes Wonder'' : a night walk project produced in collaboration with CoolTan Arts and Camberwell Arts - 2017 - with Public Funding from Arts Council England
Featuring vocals by Camberwell Community Choir, Kimmy beat-boxer and Isa Suarez.

Nocturnes Wonder Full piece:  ( 28mns)
https://soundcloud.com/isasuarez-works/nocturnes-wonder/
All Rights reserved

Peacefull

Originally from the Basque region and a classically trained musician, Isa Suarez is a London based composer, producer and singer-songwriter who creates contrasting sound worlds spanning a range of genres across film, visual art, VR and performance.

Her compositions stem from her passion for how music can impact emotions and respond to the human condition and nature. From expansive orchestral scores, mesmeric soundscapes to bold electro-beats and delicate melodies, Suarez enjoys writing in a variety of styles and has an affinity for atmospheric and choral music: she combines her versatile approach with a strong sense of narrative and inventiveness. 

She has worked extensively for film and performance as well as producing large scale installations and audio-walks in collaboration with a diverse range of organisations and artists including: Tate Britain, Barbican, South Bank Sinfonia, Artangel, Mimbre, The Ora Singers, Teatro Vivo, Glastonbury and Edinburgh International Festivals, Cape Town and Berlin Art Bienales, Zena Edwards, Ackroyd &amp; Harvey. 

She has scored more than 30 films, featured on BBC, ITV, National Geographic TV, Channel 4, La Sexta/ Spain, France 3 as well as at film festivals including: Cannes Film Festival, London International Film Festival, Raindance Film Festival, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Hollywood Film Festival, Santa Cruz/USA, Pusan/International Korean Film Festival - Recent awards include: Best 360° Film Awards at the Cannes World Film festival and Beyond The Curve International Film Festival 2023; Jury Prize Award at Agadir International Film Festival; Nominations at FAFF/ Fine Arts Film Festival/Venice-California.

She has also created projects that explore human rights, ecology and community engagement through performance, music and lyrics, in collaboration with organisations such as People United, Greenpeace, Amnesty International, War Child and Extinction Rebellion



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