Free Event
Tonewood will be available online via the hcmf// website throughout the festival
Georgia Rodgers (UK, 1985)
Tonewood (2021)
Having written works for a diverse range of buildings and spaces, including St Andrew’s Lyddington and York Minster, sound artist Georgia Rodgers is used to encountering a space and identifying what sounds might come out of it. Her new work, Tonewood, hits a little closer to home – it’s inspired by an ash tree she can see out of the window of her flat in north London. She has developed an enduring relationship with the tree, one marked by its seasonal changes; she watches it come into leaf, and sees it providing shelter for the local animals. For Tonewood, Rodgers attempted to capture these changes, to record the tree against the cycles of weather and hibernation. The piece features these sounds, filtered into a mix with Rodgers’ own cello and violin accompaniment, connected in an ‘exploration of the different voices of resonant wood’.
Tonewood is commissioned by hcmf//