https://melaniewilson.org.uk Melanie Wilson Tue, 25 Nov 2025 15:07:40 +0000 https://melaniewilson.org.uk en https://melaniewilson.org.uk/Home Mon, 11 Jun 2018 11:16:44 +0000 Melanie Wilson https://melaniewilson.org.uk/Home Melanie Wilson is a U.K. based inter-disciplinary performance maker and researcher. Her acclaimed work is founded on the dialogue between sound, experimental forms of composition, language, technology and live performance. Melanie’s work creates spaces for audiences to feel and think deeply through listening. Alongside her own projects, she collaborates with other artists and organisations as a sound designer and composer for performance. She is currently a PhD researcher at the Centre for Performance, Technology &amp; Equity (PTEQ), exploring sonic strategies for connecting to other species. View Projects https://melaniewilson.org.uk/Cow-Deer-2025-6 Tue, 25 Nov 2025 15:07:40 +0000 Melanie Wilson https://melaniewilson.org.uk/Cow-Deer-2025-6 Cow | Deer Cow | Deer is an experiment in sound lead performance, using only live foley and field recordings to evoke the lives of two animals - a cow and a deer. <img width="4500" height="3000" width_o="4500" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/10399408c087cae68cc2678ae9a13bb26d944c37ea1f5ba022c25551108195f8/All-performers-of-Cow--Deer-photography-credit-Camilla-Greenwell-SMALL.jpeg" data-mid="241077762" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/10399408c087cae68cc2678ae9a13bb26d944c37ea1f5ba022c25551108195f8/All-performers-of-Cow--Deer-photography-credit-Camilla-Greenwell-SMALL.jpeg" /> The project was created by Katie Mitchell, Nina Segal and Melanie Wilson, in collaboration with foley artists Ruth Sullivan and Tom Espiner, and commissioned by Royal Court Theatre, London and National Theatre of Greece. <img width="4500" height="3000" width_o="4500" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/39ea404e7be55bdf0af9a9b13606c5b20f2d06d6d6300317f7b15a3396241fb6/Pandora-Colin-and-Ruth-Sullivan-photography-credit-Camilla-Greenwell-SMALL.jpeg" data-mid="241077803" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/39ea404e7be55bdf0af9a9b13606c5b20f2d06d6d6300317f7b15a3396241fb6/Pandora-Colin-and-Ruth-Sullivan-photography-credit-Camilla-Greenwell-SMALL.jpeg" /> Cow | Deer ran in London between September - October 2025, and in Athens between November 2025 - January 2026. <img width="3000" height="2000" width_o="3000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/42d586525970abda0d22c4d1744dffc85bdbfcc9612b69cec9485563859ce086/Tatenda-Matsvai-photography-credit-Camilla-Greenwell-SMALL.jpeg" data-mid="241077805" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/42d586525970abda0d22c4d1744dffc85bdbfcc9612b69cec9485563859ce086/Tatenda-Matsvai-photography-credit-Camilla-Greenwell-SMALL.jpeg" /> London Cast: Pandora Colin Tom Espiner Tatenda Matsvai Ruth Sullivan Athens Cast: Alexandros Zotaj Christos Thanos Joanna Toumpakari Korian Kokkali Creative Team: Co-Creator: Katie MitchellCo-Creator: Nina SegalCo-Creator and Sound Artist: Melanie WilsonDesigner: Alex EalesLighting Designer: Prema MehtaFoley score originated by: Tom Espiner &amp; Ruth Sullivan Associate Sound Designer &amp; Operator (London): Marie Zschommler Associate Director (Athens): Irene Fanarioti Casting Director: Saffeya ShebliProduction Manager: Marius RønningAssistant Production Manager: Tiffany Ledesma Costume Supervisor: Karen HopkinsonCompany Manager: Mica TaylorStage Manager: Louise QuartermainDeputy Stage Manager: Lucy BradfordDeputy Stage Manager: Cover Aimee WoodsLighting Supervisor: Izzy HobbyLighting Programmer: Lizzie SkellettLead Producer: Charlie Bunker for Impossible Producing Executive Producer: Steven Atkinson ︎ Back to&nbsp;Projects https://melaniewilson.org.uk/Oracle-Song-2025 Fri, 23 Apr 2021 15:08:16 +0000 Melanie Wilson https://melaniewilson.org.uk/Oracle-Song-2025 Oracle Song Initiated through Sound and Music’s New Voices programme, this multi-part vocal performance uses sound, music and language to explore the human connection with non-human species. A staged presentation of the music was presented at the Barbican Pit Theatre in March 2025, as part of FuelFest. <img width="3442" height="1886" width_o="3442" height_o="1886" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cdc56db10cae3c6120ac1100f7edcc90420fc9e0f6df107a32095f6e382ea03d/Screenshot-2026-02-26-at-12.24.15.png" data-mid="246544142" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cdc56db10cae3c6120ac1100f7edcc90420fc9e0f6df107a32095f6e382ea03d/Screenshot-2026-02-26-at-12.24.15.png" /> Composed through dialogue between a neural net and a vocal ensemble, the project imagines a form of inter-species communion, through creation of a hybrid human/animal vocality. This unique sonic encounter connects listeners to an expanded understanding of non-human life and intelligence, and the intimate sensation of our precarious co-existence. <img width="3434" height="1882" width_o="3434" height_o="1882" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b9812500dc6c731e6f050b0df1917657470fe0be09794bdfb225e14c91b2fbec/Screenshot-2026-02-26-at-12.21.38.png" data-mid="246544141" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b9812500dc6c731e6f050b0df1917657470fe0be09794bdfb225e14c91b2fbec/Screenshot-2026-02-26-at-12.21.38.png" />The project responds to the crisis of species extinction, and engages with the processes of machine learning as a way to playfully broaden anthropocentric narratives of intelligence and inter-dependence. <img width="3420" height="1870" width_o="3420" height_o="1870" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8b8427d0d1dbe4b12922c0524908e37c07638170b814c047b40f1f235969c5e0/Screenshot-2026-02-26-at-12.29.10.png" data-mid="246544145" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8b8427d0d1dbe4b12922c0524908e37c07638170b814c047b40f1f235969c5e0/Screenshot-2026-02-26-at-12.29.10.png" /> In 2022/3 Melanie partnered with PRiSM Lab (Practice Research in Science &amp; Music) Manchester, to develop material using their neural net. This music was tested in Manchester, in collaboration with: Benoît André Peyee Chen Adey Grummet Kate Huggett Rosie Middleton Robin Morton Melanie Pappenheim Edmund PhillipsHéloïse Werner and Michael Betteridge - music facilitator and conductor Sam Salem - project mentor Bernie Whittle - project producer for Fuel <img width="1904" height="1043" width_o="1904" height_o="1043" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bf88043549a8d5e87e3e94123bc99c9ede826d87f68260c2e946417d6c65d61b/oracle-R-D.png" data-mid="149514571" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bf88043549a8d5e87e3e94123bc99c9ede826d87f68260c2e946417d6c65d61b/oracle-R-D.png" /> Read a blog of Melanie’s journey with the neural net&nbsp;here.<img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0636de7c4de92714e032aad8a55e2ba3a91a8c800fb970eb730deef0a03de1b0/PRiSM-training-whiteboard.jpg" data-mid="149514819" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0636de7c4de92714e032aad8a55e2ba3a91a8c800fb970eb730deef0a03de1b0/PRiSM-training-whiteboard.jpg" /> Oracle Song at the Barbican was performed by: Melanie Wilson Sarah Dacey Adey Grummet Rosie Middleton Melanie Pappenheim Kate Whitely - Music SupervisorGrzegorz Staniewicz - Production Sound Engineer Project producer for Fuel&nbsp; - Caitlin Gleeson The project is produced and co-commissioned by Fuel. Sound and Music’s New Voices 2020/21 is funded by Arts Council England, PRS Foundation and Garfield Weston Foundation. <img width="1536" height="703" width_o="1536" height_o="703" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6ebddbdfc68f36226fe10d7842e7a82b7c3f3326d71117ce3a838279406a2eba/PRiSM-logo-CTA-aspect-ratio-1536x703.png" data-mid="106479072" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6ebddbdfc68f36226fe10d7842e7a82b7c3f3326d71117ce3a838279406a2eba/PRiSM-logo-CTA-aspect-ratio-1536x703.png" /> <img width="768" height="768" width_o="768" height_o="768" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4e240137593016f02193ac8d3440529a46b79061661dd2ee6e9792c56cc4eddd/fuel-logo.png" data-mid="106478729" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/768/i/4e240137593016f02193ac8d3440529a46b79061661dd2ee6e9792c56cc4eddd/fuel-logo.png" /> <img width="630" height="389" width_o="630" height_o="389" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0db30ef0a221e1a3e41b928876dd8a58a7deae91c8a659b47f71cdb154686bb8/New_Voices_logo_black.jpg" data-mid="108381823" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/630/i/0db30ef0a221e1a3e41b928876dd8a58a7deae91c8a659b47f71cdb154686bb8/New_Voices_logo_black.jpg" /> <img width="571" height="181" width_o="571" height_o="181" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3022a31eb883b3cb3b3675de94d21b8a7b56d618e7427ed6aa8f937a1c28152a/grant_png_black.png" data-mid="108381797" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/571/i/3022a31eb883b3cb3b3675de94d21b8a7b56d618e7427ed6aa8f937a1c28152a/grant_png_black.png" /> <img width="657" height="158" width_o="657" height_o="158" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c8cb81aae702c4b559d22390a137247d14ae2c207d79199db9b6343fb17f998e/prs-talentdevelopmentpartner-logotype-black-small.png" data-mid="108381876" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/657/i/c8cb81aae702c4b559d22390a137247d14ae2c207d79199db9b6343fb17f998e/prs-talentdevelopmentpartner-logotype-black-small.png" /> <img width="409" height="260" width_o="409" height_o="260" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b5f7e6b8176354298803a873c101f0ce55aae924676346601de6a50eaf732201/GWF-logo-blue.jpg" data-mid="108669119" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/409/i/b5f7e6b8176354298803a873c101f0ce55aae924676346601de6a50eaf732201/GWF-logo-blue.jpg" /> ︎ Back to&nbsp;Projects https://melaniewilson.org.uk/Old-Maids-ongoing Thu, 12 Dec 2024 17:21:59 +0000 Melanie Wilson https://melaniewilson.org.uk/Old-Maids-ongoing Old Maids This piece is part of SoundEscapes, a series of commissions by the Sainsbury Centre and Sound and Music. Composed to accompany ‘Old Maids’ by Leonora Carrington, the piece creates a sonic encounter with the imagined story of the painting. Inspired by the wit and strange poetry of Carrington’s vision, it listens to the voices and figures within the painting, and sings its themes of human/animal co-existence and subversive female ageing for the viewer. Featuring the voices of Kate Huggett, Melanie Pappenheim and Rose Stachniewska. &nbsp;<img width="960" height="1280" width_o="960" height_o="1280" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/136a84e73b2ea4cdf8460f2a976968d0822b032a04f689787bb6498e4c7d5fe8/IMG_1438-Large.jpeg" data-mid="223278032" border="0" data-scale="61" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/960/i/136a84e73b2ea4cdf8460f2a976968d0822b032a04f689787bb6498e4c7d5fe8/IMG_1438-Large.jpeg" /> Installed now in the Sainsbury Centre gallery, Norwich. Or listen online here. <img width="1174" height="544" width_o="1174" height_o="544" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d8628f9b47982b038236edc8aec5c51b15afb6d2e37f769dfaa526fcade857f5/NEW_Sainsbury_Black-copy.jpg" data-mid="223277578" border="0" data-scale="25" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d8628f9b47982b038236edc8aec5c51b15afb6d2e37f769dfaa526fcade857f5/NEW_Sainsbury_Black-copy.jpg" /> <img width="2057" height="514" width_o="2057" height_o="514" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c13eb728e9e9b1bbc941769e54ca013e9faeda9b6f927aa5b82496aa6b2a7084/Sound-and-Music-Logo.png" data-mid="223277605" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c13eb728e9e9b1bbc941769e54ca013e9faeda9b6f927aa5b82496aa6b2a7084/Sound-and-Music-Logo.png" /> <img width="2248" height="817" width_o="2248" height_o="817" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/641ecc31e32695ec8234b8aee93219f19d21a01caab73f5a01c987f945439156/SoundEscapes_Black.png" data-mid="223277672" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/641ecc31e32695ec8234b8aee93219f19d21a01caab73f5a01c987f945439156/SoundEscapes_Black.png" /> ︎ Back to&nbsp;Projects https://melaniewilson.org.uk/Dreaming-Species-online Wed, 01 May 2024 15:55:50 +0000 Melanie Wilson https://melaniewilson.org.uk/Dreaming-Species-online Dreaming Species Dreaming Species is a listening experience for headphones in three parts, first launched in 2024. It imagines a world in which the human connection with animals begins to re-tune, using the shared processes of human memory and machine learning. <img width="9922" height="7016" width_o="9922" height_o="7016" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/70b28d7735bcd6290479262f95ccf66e81ec3b4e811fb1070bf3490a0342bc41/DS-A3-Landscape.jpg" data-mid="210099646" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/70b28d7735bcd6290479262f95ccf66e81ec3b4e811fb1070bf3490a0342bc41/DS-A3-Landscape.jpg" /> Across three episodes, this dream-like piece embarks on a journey into a world in which human connection to animals is re-imagined using the processes of machine learning. To engage with the crisis of biodiversity loss in the UK, Wilson collaborated with an AI neural net, using the voices of animals at risk of extinction and human voices, creating a new sonic language. Combining multi-part vocal music, animal and machine voice, text and binaural recording techniques, Dreaming Species is the opening creative chapter of a multi-year research process, in which Wilson has explored the possibilities of machine learning to imagine new sonic meeting grounds for human and animal narratives. dreamingspecies.com background Wilson collaborated with PRiSM (Practice Research in Science and Music) at RNCM, Manchester, to create the machine-generated voice in this project. She also collaborated with singers Peyee Chen, Adey Grummet, Simone Ibbet-Brown and Melanie Pappenheim to create elements of the music through improvisation. This work was funded by Arts Council, England and created as part of Sound and Music’s New Voices programme, of which Melanie was a 2020/21 selected composer. Following this, Dreaming Species enters its next chapter on stage as Oracle: a new live music performance for six voices, live electronics and projection premiering in 2025. credits Concept, score, text, voiceover &amp; sound designMelanie Wilson Singers Peyee Chen, Adey Grummet, Simone Ibbett-Brown and Melanie Pappenheim Neural net training voices Peyee Chen &amp; Héloïse Werner Neural net programmer Dr Christopher Melen Video artist Akhila Krishnan Website design, identity &amp; additional video design Graeme Swinton Music facilitator Yshani Perinpanayagam Mentor to MelanieDr Sam Salem Produced byFuel Recorded at Urchin Studios, LondonThis work was funded by Arts Council, England and created as part of Sound and Music’s New Voices programme, of which Melanie was a 2020/21 selected composer. Dreaming Species is part of a wider research project. Warm gratitude to the vocal collaborators and musicians who have developed ideas with me: Benoît André, Michael Betteridge, Sarah Cameron, Kate Huggett, Rosie Middleton, Robin Morton, Edmund Phillips and Rose Stachniewska. A huge thank you for support and catalysis to: Emily Howard, Director PRiSMLaonikos Psimikakis Chalkokondylis, Sound and Music Thank you to ASDP for binaural head loan. <img width="1536" height="703" width_o="1536" height_o="703" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6ebddbdfc68f36226fe10d7842e7a82b7c3f3326d71117ce3a838279406a2eba/PRiSM-logo-CTA-aspect-ratio-1536x703.png" data-mid="210099168" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6ebddbdfc68f36226fe10d7842e7a82b7c3f3326d71117ce3a838279406a2eba/PRiSM-logo-CTA-aspect-ratio-1536x703.png" /> <img width="768" height="768" width_o="768" height_o="768" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4e240137593016f02193ac8d3440529a46b79061661dd2ee6e9792c56cc4eddd/fuel-logo.png" data-mid="210099167" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/768/i/4e240137593016f02193ac8d3440529a46b79061661dd2ee6e9792c56cc4eddd/fuel-logo.png" /> <img width="630" height="389" width_o="630" height_o="389" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0db30ef0a221e1a3e41b928876dd8a58a7deae91c8a659b47f71cdb154686bb8/New_Voices_logo_black.jpg" data-mid="210099170" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/630/i/0db30ef0a221e1a3e41b928876dd8a58a7deae91c8a659b47f71cdb154686bb8/New_Voices_logo_black.jpg" /> <img width="571" height="181" width_o="571" height_o="181" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3022a31eb883b3cb3b3675de94d21b8a7b56d618e7427ed6aa8f937a1c28152a/grant_png_black.png" data-mid="210099169" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/571/i/3022a31eb883b3cb3b3675de94d21b8a7b56d618e7427ed6aa8f937a1c28152a/grant_png_black.png" /> <img width="657" height="158" width_o="657" height_o="158" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c8cb81aae702c4b559d22390a137247d14ae2c207d79199db9b6343fb17f998e/prs-talentdevelopmentpartner-logotype-black-small.png" data-mid="210099171" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/657/i/c8cb81aae702c4b559d22390a137247d14ae2c207d79199db9b6343fb17f998e/prs-talentdevelopmentpartner-logotype-black-small.png" /> <img width="409" height="260" width_o="409" height_o="260" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b5f7e6b8176354298803a873c101f0ce55aae924676346601de6a50eaf732201/GWF-logo-blue.jpg" data-mid="210099172" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/409/i/b5f7e6b8176354298803a873c101f0ce55aae924676346601de6a50eaf732201/GWF-logo-blue.jpg" /> ︎ Back to&nbsp;Projects https://melaniewilson.org.uk/glass-human-2022 Fri, 04 Oct 2019 11:27:29 +0000 Melanie Wilson https://melaniewilson.org.uk/glass-human-2022 glass human <img width="600" height="600" width_o="600" height_o="600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/74292fbbea8753d6330b7c817839847a62a1632fa7e5a0990795464bf1c690f4/glass-human-artwork-600x600.jpg" data-mid="155606753" border="0" data-scale="57" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/600/i/74292fbbea8753d6330b7c817839847a62a1632fa7e5a0990795464bf1c690f4/glass-human-artwork-600x600.jpg" />three threads three tongues three rooms three bodies curled in the dark listening to a hole in the world... A chamber opera created by Samantha Fernando and Melanie Wilson for Glyndebourne, exploring the experience of loneliness. Three isolated voices find their way towards each other, charting a journey from emotional and social fragmentation to connection and meaning. Rooted in three contemporary experiences of loneliness – a young woman finding her identity, a refugee searching for stability and an older man living with grief and cognitive decline – the work explores the forces that separate us from each other and the threads we follow to join back together again. <img width="1920" height="1280" width_o="1920" height_o="1280" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/02145a5f9fc1a6eae31cda29e358f0e6406e6536b5951a7d50611dd7644d4997/glasshuman_281022_photoRichardHubertSmith-4314_1-1920x1280.jpg" data-mid="159376314" border="0" data-scale="87" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/02145a5f9fc1a6eae31cda29e358f0e6406e6536b5951a7d50611dd7644d4997/glasshuman_281022_photoRichardHubertSmith-4314_1-1920x1280.jpg" /> Music Samantha Fernando Libretto&nbsp; Melanie Wilson Sound score&nbsp; Melanie Wilson &amp; Samantha Fernando <img width="1920" height="1280" width_o="1920" height_o="1280" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fd11aabe2fa3ec013dda5b9a4e71033d2490f59970019e86bf5cd14968231a35/glasshuman_281022_photoRichardHubertSmith-7018_1-1920x1280.jpg" data-mid="159376316" border="0" data-scale="86" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fd11aabe2fa3ec013dda5b9a4e71033d2490f59970019e86bf5cd14968231a35/glasshuman_281022_photoRichardHubertSmith-7018_1-1920x1280.jpg" />Creative team: ConductorAshley Beauchamp DirectorLucy Bailey DesignerJoanna Parker Lighting DesignerCharlotte Burton Lead Engagement ArtistFreya Wynn-Jones Glyndebourne Tour Orchestra playersDaisy Spiers ViolaRosie Banks-Francis CelloSue Blair HarpCameron Sinclair PercussionIñigo Mikeleiz Accordion Music PreparationBen-San Lau Cast:GraceAnna Cavaliero OmaCamille Maalawy EdwardDenver Martin Smith <img width="1920" height="1280" width_o="1920" height_o="1280" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d6d243810fb88a1db98cf3df13e917b260747c6d67fde570d9d252cac9163f12/glasshuman_281022_photoRichardHubertSmith-5180_1-1920x1280.jpg" data-mid="159376315" border="0" data-scale="81" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d6d243810fb88a1db98cf3df13e917b260747c6d67fde570d9d252cac9163f12/glasshuman_281022_photoRichardHubertSmith-5180_1-1920x1280.jpg" />“Librettist Melanie Wilson has woven a sinuous narrative in which three isolated individuals search for connections and are made whole in the process.” The Observer “A musical pointer towards an external symbol of loneliness, a slowly developing sinkhole, its overwhelming electronic roars, creaks and groans draw the characters out of the building, where in finding one another they find themselves.”The Observer ︎ Back to&nbsp;Projects https://melaniewilson.org.uk/Current-Rising-2021 Tue, 23 Mar 2021 19:02:31 +0000 Melanie Wilson https://melaniewilson.org.uk/Current-Rising-2021 Current, Rising Current, Rising is a 15-minute hyper reality opera experience, combining virtual reality with a multisensory set, blending stagecraft with CG technology. It invites audiences to step into an immersive, atmospheric virtual world and experience a dream-like journey carried musically by a poem layered in song. It is a radical new way of seeing opera in which the audience are at the centre of the performance. Winner of Best Out of Home VR Entertainment of the Year at the 2021 VR awards. Director: Netia Jones Designer and CG Art Director: Joanna Scotcher Composer: Samantha Fernando Writer: Melanie Wilson Sound designer: David Sheppard Movement director: Anna Morrisey Installation lighting designer: Zoe Spurr CGI and software development: Figment Productions Soprano: Anna Dennis Ensemble: CHROMA Conductor: Richard Baker <img width="1200" height="725" width_o="1200" height_o="725" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cc64eddc28e374cd1f149a56e1c9cbeee78216d9a547ec7dcd9e8b3a59533384/currentRising-07.jpg" data-mid="105116777" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cc64eddc28e374cd1f149a56e1c9cbeee78216d9a547ec7dcd9e8b3a59533384/currentRising-07.jpg" /> <img width="1200" height="725" width_o="1200" height_o="725" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4f9a3ed49d7d1e55a198eb78280290bceb813bc66080f20f0f387fb85eb60f22/currentRising-09.jpg" data-mid="105116907" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4f9a3ed49d7d1e55a198eb78280290bceb813bc66080f20f0f387fb85eb60f22/currentRising-09.jpg" /> <img width="1200" height="725" width_o="1200" height_o="725" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/95b84994074346d11c6ae25383750787711a7c923feff13b61ada32a26912993/currentRising-10.jpg" data-mid="105116916" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/95b84994074346d11c6ae25383750787711a7c923feff13b61ada32a26912993/currentRising-10.jpg" /><img width="510" height="680" width_o="510" height_o="680" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/183fc51d989ce9704e3de6bb5a876e5458165f1324af0c283cf29537a16cc336/E1xkH03WUAYLNbR.jpg" data-mid="149515450" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/510/i/183fc51d989ce9704e3de6bb5a876e5458165f1324af0c283cf29537a16cc336/E1xkH03WUAYLNbR.jpg" /><img width="1200" height="725" width_o="1200" height_o="725" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5d76616e04bea2d64764f6798dec4f7e234949e748630d7b16960f9107180f19/currentRising-06.jpg" data-mid="105116804" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5d76616e04bea2d64764f6798dec4f7e234949e748630d7b16960f9107180f19/currentRising-06.jpg" /> Tickets and info here ︎ Back to&nbsp;Projects https://melaniewilson.org.uk/Radical-Mother-2019 Mon, 02 Jul 2018 11:56:30 +0000 Melanie Wilson https://melaniewilson.org.uk/Radical-Mother-2019 Radical Mother Radical Mother is a participatory music project that combines contemporary multi-vocal singing, improvisation, electronic sound, poetic and verbatim text. This ongoing conversation project began in 2018, and combines climate research, environmental philosophy, singing and sound, together with input from its audience, to build an evolving manifesto in response to the crisis in our natural world. At the heart of the project is the concept of kinship and parenthood. Can we extend our understanding of those human experiences beyond immediate family, species and gender norms, and build a more just future society for each other and our biosphere? <img width="6720" height="4480" width_o="6720" height_o="4480" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d4cab91fec454fa95634088da4462e4f539e60e31070ee4321ee194eeadfb582/Live-Long---Die-Out---improvising.jpg" data-mid="31409432" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d4cab91fec454fa95634088da4462e4f539e60e31070ee4321ee194eeadfb582/Live-Long---Die-Out---improvising.jpg" /> The ideas for the project are founded on Melanie’s ongoing explorations in ecology, feminism and the future, drawing on contemporary theories of compassion and community from education (Jem Bendell), political theory (William Ophuls), eco-feminism (Donna Harraway), ecology (Dark Mountain) and climate&nbsp; research. Melanie collaborated with environmental psychologist Dr. Stuart Capstick (Cardiff University) on the project, who studies human behaviour in relation to climate change. <img width="1200" height="800" width_o="1200" height_o="800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/86b37388bd4a6762412f31a975ae04ca2909ead8534c7a3dcd5bf31f8caf2cbb/Live-Long---Die-Out---outdoor-2.jpg" data-mid="31409435" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/86b37388bd4a6762412f31a975ae04ca2909ead8534c7a3dcd5bf31f8caf2cbb/Live-Long---Die-Out---outdoor-2.jpg" /> <img width="1200" height="800" width_o="1200" height_o="800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/29ca2c4f1c91a09375b05de4960398e067ad71d65945470640abc00b30f4ed89/Live-Long---Die-Out---outdoor-singing.jpg" data-mid="31409440" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/29ca2c4f1c91a09375b05de4960398e067ad71d65945470640abc00b30f4ed89/Live-Long---Die-Out---outdoor-singing.jpg" /><img width="2016" height="1512" width_o="2016" height_o="1512" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ed7d48f6f857777b522672fd14847a92b648c3a61263728174c7b37240b12226/radical-mother---latitude.jpg" data-mid="55266246" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ed7d48f6f857777b522672fd14847a92b648c3a61263728174c7b37240b12226/radical-mother---latitude.jpg" /> <img width="4096" height="2731" width_o="4096" height_o="2731" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f89203a7bebf430c9920b0f36e34f2f006bc96ea7c6211ace14b5cd3fabe528d/tedx.jpg" data-mid="58994702" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f89203a7bebf430c9920b0f36e34f2f006bc96ea7c6211ace14b5cd3fabe528d/tedx.jpg" /> images: Alexander Brattell &amp; Philippa Neels The project appeared at Pulse Festival and Coastal Currents Festival in 2018, and Latitude Festival and TEDx Bristol in 2019. Ensemble: Adey Grummet, Jeremy Avis, Peyee Chen, Kate Hugget and Melanie Pappenheim. Examples of the music here, here and here. <img width="571" height="181" width_o="571" height_o="181" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dfbebc6d1476aa71b08683a7a9fa0fdb08534be2ca21b4a39029dc53e362961c/grant_png_black.png" data-mid="52323038" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/571/i/dfbebc6d1476aa71b08683a7a9fa0fdb08534be2ca21b4a39029dc53e362961c/grant_png_black.png" /> &nbsp; Oppenheim-John Downes&nbsp;Memorial Trust ︎ Back to&nbsp;Projects https://melaniewilson.org.uk/Women-of-Record-2018 Fri, 06 Jul 2018 09:07:22 +0000 Melanie Wilson https://melaniewilson.org.uk/Women-of-Record-2018 Women of Record Women of Record is a soundwork for headphones in seven parts, which showed at Knole House as part of A Woman's Place exhibition in 2018. The exhibition commissioned six contemporary art works that highlighted the progression towards women’s equality from Lubaina Himid, CJ Mahoney, Emily Speed, Lindsay Seers, Alice May Williams and Melanie Wilson. Melanie’s sound work takes inspiration from the lives of Lady Anne Clifford and Lady Frances Cranfield, both residents of Knole. It invites connections between their experiences as 17th century women and the lives of contemporary British women, using Knole as the thread. The piece voices extracts from Cranfield’s letters and Clifford’s autobiography, placing them alongside first person accounts of women today; women whose experiences echo or answer those of Anne and Frances. Weaving three dimensional sound recordings together with an original score and multi-layered narrative, this richly detailed sound piece connects the listener to Knole as a witness to the progressive spirit of female endurance across time, and the legacy that presses on. <img width="4724" height="2374" width_o="4724" height_o="2374" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6091f573d22f0d8c0a2757a42206d922644825f4d45ea03817af011e7a6553e4/Women-of-Record---Melanie-Wilson---production-image-web.jpg" data-mid="20036762" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6091f573d22f0d8c0a2757a42206d922644825f4d45ea03817af011e7a6553e4/Women-of-Record---Melanie-Wilson---production-image-web.jpg" /> Listen to excerpts here&nbsp; Written &amp; composed by Melanie Wilson Adapting the letters of Frances Cranfield and the diaries of Anne Clifford Voice of Anne Clifford - Madeleine Worrall Voice of Frances Cranfield - Lucy Ellinson Contributing Women of Record: Lorena Rivero de Beer, Alice Hobden, Emily Mytton, Helen Rana, Freya Sackville-West, Lindsay Wright <img width="3402" height="2268" width_o="3402" height_o="2268" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9ed4ada94eecc223e2b1a892aeb20eace08cbd665f2884c0ea55476ef452daf4/8-Melanie-Wilson-Women-of-Record-2018--A-Woman-s-Place-Knole-c-National-Trust-Ciaran-McCrickard.jpg" data-mid="20038248" border="0" data-scale="74" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9ed4ada94eecc223e2b1a892aeb20eace08cbd665f2884c0ea55476ef452daf4/8-Melanie-Wilson-Women-of-Record-2018--A-Woman-s-Place-Knole-c-National-Trust-Ciaran-McCrickard.jpg" /> Link: awomansplace.org.uk <img width="2363" height="638" width_o="2363" height_o="638" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4f3f05b49726e31dddcb259cf9cca8302ef53a4716b84cccc0919f14fded4b25/lottery__black.jpg" data-mid="20037801" border="0" data-scale="24" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4f3f05b49726e31dddcb259cf9cca8302ef53a4716b84cccc0919f14fded4b25/lottery__black.jpg" /> ︎ Back to&nbsp;Projects https://melaniewilson.org.uk/Opera-for-the-Unknown-Woman-2016 Mon, 09 Jul 2018 13:33:01 +0000 Melanie Wilson https://melaniewilson.org.uk/Opera-for-the-Unknown-Woman-2016 Opera for the Unknown Woman Opera for the Unknown Woman is an opera poem, created by Melanie Wilson (UK) with co-composer Katarina Glowicka (PL) and projection designer Will Duke (UK). It is an epic science-fiction dream of Earth in the 21st and 22nd centuries, seen through the eyes of its women and visitors from the far future, fusing contemporary classical and electronic music, choral singing, film and choreography. <img width="5619" height="3746" width_o="5619" height_o="3746" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5e170c992d6d9310ee31b05198819778474983e8ad0ce49b714a0d20218c6c67/opera-for-the-unknown-woman---dance.jpg" data-mid="69797340" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5e170c992d6d9310ee31b05198819778474983e8ad0ce49b714a0d20218c6c67/opera-for-the-unknown-woman---dance.jpg" /> Commissioned by Wales Millennium Centre for Festival of Voice and Yorkshire Festival in association with Warwick Arts Centre. Funded by Arts Council England &amp; Arts Council Wales. Supported by the Fidelio Trust and Hinrichsen Foundation. Development commissioned by Warwick Arts Centre and funded by Arts Council England &amp; PRSF for Music Foundation. Developed in association with Opera North Projects. <img width="5619" height="3746" width_o="5619" height_o="3746" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ae6b1b2c772ad32b0ba8bdbc9a868d82889488320fb8fe21734e5b73abf189a7/opera-for-the-unknown-woman---chorus.jpg" data-mid="69797368" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ae6b1b2c772ad32b0ba8bdbc9a868d82889488320fb8fe21734e5b73abf189a7/opera-for-the-unknown-woman---chorus.jpg" /> <img width="1890" height="1260" width_o="1890" height_o="1260" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4f57041c46d5e881f5c4c24e4eeb136bfd047b5d24dec04f52bfe39d5a7130a8/unknown-woman-production-shot.jpg" data-mid="20025410" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4f57041c46d5e881f5c4c24e4eeb136bfd047b5d24dec04f52bfe39d5a7130a8/unknown-woman-production-shot.jpg" /> <img width="3746" height="5619" width_o="3746" height_o="5619" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/776c4a82c80faa0a04c77a14296d78246994aa28985dff2ea9fca5c6379da11c/IMG_4136.jpg" data-mid="69797419" border="0" data-scale="55" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/776c4a82c80faa0a04c77a14296d78246994aa28985dff2ea9fca5c6379da11c/IMG_4136.jpg" /><img width="5619" height="3746" width_o="5619" height_o="3746" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/af292db1a07fd58da63e9d983f3084dae3d557cc928da6e004183376c8eef758/IMG_4165.jpg" data-mid="69797567" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/af292db1a07fd58da63e9d983f3084dae3d557cc928da6e004183376c8eef758/IMG_4165.jpg" /> Credits: Written, directed and co-composed by Melanie Wilson Co-composed by Katarina GlowickaProjection design by Will DukeSet and costume design by Fly DavisLighting by Kristina HjelmMovement direction by Carolina Valdes Cast: Abigail KellyAdey GrummetAlexia McIntoshCalie HoughEugenia GeorgievaKate HuggettMiriam GouldPatricia RozarioPeyee ChenSophie GledhillWendy WoonYael Clare Shahmoon <img width="5619" height="3746" width_o="5619" height_o="3746" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f2b8cb8f0cbcdf5013ca599ca3e3df05bd7aec8ca85a11d5b6b66493b4f06dda/IMG_3771.jpg" data-mid="171503786" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f2b8cb8f0cbcdf5013ca599ca3e3df05bd7aec8ca85a11d5b6b66493b4f06dda/IMG_3771.jpg" /> ‘Demanding work is seen as anathema to the accessibility, entertainment and instant gratification deemed necessary to attract and placate audiences. But I resist that, and so does Melanie, committing herself instead to sculpting new forms for performance, and creating space for different stories about women. It's certainly a song for action, though, for global feminism to unify against the patriarchal structures that are relentlessly destroying life on earth.'&nbsp; Maddy Costa, journalist and blogger on Opera for the Unknown Woman ‘The piece’s ambitious attempt, it seems to me, is to enable a different mode of conversation. to harness a different form of attention to what it goes without saying are vastly important ideas. And it seems to be trying to perform the alternative way of being that it proposes - to inhabit a space that’s simultaneously powerful and gentle, clear and complex.' 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