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Pianist and composer Xenia Pestova Bennett presents an exquisite award-winning project as featured in Belfast International Arts Festival, Unesco Week of Sound and on BBC Radio 3 Night Tracks.All Aglow takes inspiration from coastal bioluminescence (a range of glowing behaviours exhibited by marine life and bacteria) to explore resonance, memory, improvisation and the human impact on the environment with piano, electronics and field recordings.
The piano is prepared with objects salvaged from the sea placed to vibrate on the strings, while nostalgic analogue synthesizers and field recordings of seascapes, cold-water swimmer interviews and and historic texts create a mysterious aural flavour, adding elements of sonic time-travel and blurring stylistic boundaries.
"...full of atmosphere, broad sweeps, seascapes – it made one think, not just of the things and places in the text, but of one’s own store of memories."
- Piers Hellawell, composer
"Spellbinding... Making the invisible visible. Like being in nature
Feeling at one with the universe."
- Audience feedback, Manchester and Edinburgh
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Playhouse Derry, The Playhouse, 5-7 Artillery Street, Londonderry, BT48 6, United Kingdom,Derry/Londonderry, Derry
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