Name: Phoenix by Kim Lowings
Duration: 3 min 15 s
Description: Kim originally wrote this track for piano but it evolved over time to a more rhythmic and string based song. It explores the power of storytelling & a mythical & perhaps spiritual transformation of attraction

This piece reflects the disjuncture between the visual and the felt/heard experience of place at the Lady’s Well, an ancient monument near Holystone, Northumberland.  Visually the place is calm, tranquil, beautiful – somewhere to relax, to reflect, to be peaceful.  But close your eyes and you could be anywhere in the wilds of Northumberland, ears buffeted by heavy winds, exposed skin quickly turning numb.  It is an unsettling experience, whereby visual information does not match the embodied experience of being in place.  The improvisation around the tune ‘The Lady’s Well’ (written by Archie Dagg) reflects this – it is restless, constantly changing tempo and character.  This is further developed within the compositional process, with some unexpected and unsettling changes in dynamic, texture and timbre.

Lady's Well - Shorter Version

Kim originally wrote this track for piano but it evolved over time to a more rhythmic and string based song. It explores the power of storytelling & a mythical & perhaps spiritual transformation of attraction

Phoenix

Kim Lowings

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