WOW- Women of the World Festival 2011

(Launched this year. WOW celebrates the women of our time and before. It recognises the inventiveness , strong minds and creativity of women. As part of this festival I was lucky enough to see the Bird's Eye View Sound and Silents:Live music  to Silent film performance at the Southbank centre. This concert combined contemporary musicians (live) with Classical films by women filmmakers, whereby the musician would do her own interpretation of the film and write a score for it. 


Performers 
Musician: Micachu (experimental pop sensation)

Film: Hansel and Gretel by Lotte Reiniger

(this animation plays the original soundtrack and audio. unfortunately due to performance copyright there are no videos of Micachu's interpretation)


Musician: Seaming To (Multi- Instrumentalist)
Seaming To's music to this video was reminiscent of Joe Hisaishi's scores to spirited away. Light and fairytale like. Seaming is a Pianist and her family history holds a great line of pianists. 

Film:Meshes of the afternoon by David Lynch

Musician: Tara Busch (producer,musician,remixer and score writer)

Film: Suspense by Dir Lois Weber.

Finally...


Artist: IMOGEN HEAP accompanied by the Holst Singers 
A capella without any instrumental backing, Imogen delivered a dust-free performance to this macabre film. Her ghostly , echoed voice above the holst singers drew you in to the film perfectly.

Surrealist film: The Seashell and the Clergyman by Dulac. 
Unfortunately due to copyright again there are no clips of her performance so only original soundtrack/audio shows in the film below.

Imogen is currently putting together a song for her next album which will encompass audios submitted by her fans , which will be recordings of everyday sounds. She has also given us the opportunity to enter artwork/films that may be in her next album cover or music video!
go to www.imogenheap.com


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