Lachrymae by Helen Ottaway
These pieces represent five walks around ‘Lachrymae’, an immersive installation inspired by the transformation of girls to trees and tears to amber in Ted Hughes’ adaptation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Installation devised and created by Helen Ottaway (composer), Alastair Goolden (sound designer), Rowena Pearce and Tim Millar (artists).
Lachrymae was installed in the Avenue of Trees, Wandsworth Park, 2013 as part of The Shimmy 2013; in Chapel Coppice, Ashley Chase in Dorset for Inside Out Dorset 2014 and in a woodland on the island of Terschelling, The Netherlands for Oerol 2016. Photographs by Frances Ottaway.
Produced by Artmusic. www.artmusic.org.uk
Tracklist
| 1. | Song - vocal | 3:49 |
| 2. | Lachrymae | 4:54 |
| 3. | Then the Tears Flowed - vocal | 4:50 |
| 4. | Song - full | 5:09 |
| 5. | Then the Tears Flowed - full | 4:49 |
Credits
Melanie Pappenheim (voice) - tracks 1, 3, 4 & 5
Caroline Radcliffe (voice) - tracks 1, 2 & 4
Anne Wood (violin)
Recorded and edited by Alastair Goolden
Recorded at Shave Farm, Somerset, 2000
Re-released 2013
Photography by Frances Ottaway
Produced by Artmusic www.artmusic.org.uk
License
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Helen Ottaway is a composer and installation artist specialising in collaborative, site-specific and participatory work. Artmusic creates sound installations for a wide variety of spaces indoor and out sometimes involving the stretching of sound and music across urban and rural sites.
Helen's music is inspired by places, buildings and landscapes and frequently has a connection with water.