Sound, Image and Place 24 October 2019 EVENING PROGRAMME deveron-projects.com Sensory experience in understanding locality Programme Sylvan Ghosts / Viridian Echoes Ela Orleans, 2019, duration 40 minutes. 6:45pm Gaye Anthony (voice): Songs to set the scene What echoes will remain from the lives in this place? 7pm Welcome In 2018 as part of her PhD with the Scottish School of Arts and Humanities, Ela was resident in Huntly with Deveron Projects. She spent three months listening Michael Pattison, Alchemy Film & Arts introduces… towards the creation of an audio-visual work which would capture and preserve the threatened sights and sounds of human culture and ecology for an uncertain future. Sylvan Ghosts / Viridian Echoes Her film Sylvan Ghosts / Viridian Echoes is the culmination of a study into a small town and its satellite woodlands, its hopes, dreams, past and future. Q&A 8pm Interval For this premiere screening, Ela will perform live with local musicians with whom she worked while resident in Huntly – Aaron Clark (accordion), a cappella vocal 8:30pm Dudendance introduces… group Tripple, and Miguel M Padilla (flute) – adding their live responses to the film and its soundtrack. The Lady Vanishes Sylvan Ghosts / Viridian Echoes is dedicated to the memory of Huntly Cinema Dudendance introduces… projectionist, Gordon McTavish (1930 – 2019), for whose generous time, invaluable memories and passion for film Ela will always be grateful. Detour (on route to a movie) Q&A The Lady Vanishes 9:30pm The audience are invited to meet the artists and enjoy Dudendance Theatre, 2019, duration 7 minutes. the bar 11pm Bar closes This short film was created for Dudendance’s outdoor work at the Haining in the Scottish Borders in 2016. Footage was originally shot in Huntly pool during a summerschool in 2006 and edited to Fiona Soe Paing’s live soundtrack which also features Huntly trio Tripple. Detour on Route to a Movie Dudendance Theatre, 2019, duration 30 minutes. Shot on location in Argentina, Detour stems from a project originally shot in 2002. Loosely based on Jean Genet’s The Maids, the very minimal action follows a day in the life of a manservant. The relationship of the servant and his mistress unfolds through the layering of the protagonists’ voices. The footage is framed in small, claustrophobic spaces giving the characters a theatrical presence. Live and recorded sound will be interwoven during the film’s premiere screening; sound score and live musical collaboration by Fabiana Galante. Artists Ela Orleans Miguel M Padilla Ela Orleans is an audio-visual composer, multi-instrumentalist and singer. Originally from Santa Fe, New Mexico of mixed Hispanic/Native American She uses electronic and acoustic instruments to create a diverse and heritage, Miguel settled in Aberdeenshire where his interest in music layered music which she describes as “movies for ears”. Her shimmering was sparked by participation in local folk clubs and the Traditional Music musical soundscapes and scores for film have engaged with many and Song Association. Over the years he developed his own style of different subjects, from the Highland clearances to the moon landings. expression on the flute and enthusiastically embraced the traditional music culture of the North East. Miguel has been a feature in many local Born in Poland, Ela has been based in Warsaw and New York before culture festivals, including the 2008 Deveron Arts project ‘Room to Roam’ making Glasgow her home. She has released more than 14 albums to with Mike Scott of the Waterboys. He currently performs as a soloist, in a critical acclaim (including her 2017 Circles of Upper [and Lower] Hell duet and as a member of several bands for performances and ceilidhs. which was shortlisted for the Scottish Album of the Year awards) and performs live as a touring musician and DJ in festivals across the globe. Ela’s music and film work has been shown in galleries from CCA to Tate Tripple Britain. Tripple are Cait Lennox, Annie Lennox and Jill Andrews; sisters and mum. Gaye Anthony Tripple have a huge love of the traditional music and songs of Scotland and especially enjoy arranging them in a contemporary way. Using Gaye Anthony is a singer/songwriter who has been based in interesting harmonies and finely tuned dynamics they bring the old Aberdeenshire since the 1970s. She connects her audiences with songs and their stories to life, singing mainly in Scots, Doric and Gaelic. meaningful songs through her warm, mature voice and engaging Tripple is an old Scots word describing both a dance step and the swell personality. Gaye has performed throughout Europe at maritime and of the tide. music festivals for over 20 years, initially as one half of the duo Gaye and Trish, and latterly as the Anthony Quines with her daughter Josephine. Annie, a former student at the NCETM in Plockton, has tutored at the She is a regular at local folk clubs and hosts a relaxed singaround at 2018 Huntly Summer Music school and Feis Fhiort in Glasgow. Cait runs Millbank Hall, Alford. youth bands, singing and theatre groups with SWAMP in Pollock and is the singer/songwriter in Glasgow indie band, Peplo. Finalists at the Danny Aaron Clark Kyle stage in Paisley 2018, Tripple have performed in festivals across Scotland, Europe, USA and Canada. Aaron’s grandfather, Ted Clark was a fantastic melodeon player. His death in 2017 sparked the start of Aaron’s intuitive journey with instruments of the accordion family. Aaron entered his first competition in 2018 and has won many trophies since. Aaron has Autism, ADHD and Tourette’s - he calls them his ability not his disability. He cannot read music but has a talent for composing original tunes which his brother puts into notation for him. Aaron plays in the Sir-Reel Clarks band with his brother and father – together they present a diverse genre-crossing mix of traditional Scottish and Irish folk and jazz. Artists With thanks to... This event has been made possible with the generous support of our Dudendance Theatre funders and of the festivals within which it has been included, Sound Scotland, and Across the Grain. Dudendance Theatre create work that defies a singular interpretation, having pioneered an original voice by layering film, soundtrack, narrative Ela Orleans’ film owes much gratitude to its many contributors across and movement. Each new piece exists within an ever-evolving narrative the wider Huntly community, who generously gave time to meet, discuss whereby characters re-emerge in later work. Very often live performance and perform with Ela - including the late Gordon McTavish. She would is transposed into film, shifting from the rehearsal studio onto location especially like to thank her performers tonight, and the Tin Hut and Huntly and then re-absorbed into live work. The starting point remains physical Folk Club, at which she made their acquaintance, and which do much and devised from rigorous research with international collaborators as to celebrate the talents and music culture of the North East. Thank you, well as non-professionals. Some work exists purely on film and has been too, to Alchemy Film & Arts for Michael Pattison’s introduction to Sylvan screened in galleries and cinemas. Dudendance also create site-specific Ghosts / Viridian Echoes. pieces, most recently as durational work in public spaces. Since 2002 they have made Huntly their home and base. Dudendance Theatre and Fabiana Galante’s collaboration on Detour on Route to a Movie was supported by Sound Scotland and Creative Fiona Soe Paing Scotland. Fiona Soe Paing has been composing, performing and releasing solo Thanks also to Huntly Golf Club for hosting us - a valued community work since 2007. Combining experimental electronica with vocals in resource - and to Standing Ovation for providing technical support. Burmese and English, her work has explored themes of identity, heritage and displacement. Her debut album Alien Lullabies was released in 2016 and included live sessions on BBC Radio 3 and BBC Scotland. Fiona also works collaboratively in theatre and visual arts, creating work for Spectra Festival Aberdeen 2017/18, and Dudendance Theatre’s The Lady Vanishes in the 2016 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Fiona has recently completed a residency with Aberdeen Performing Arts, creating new music inspired by the landscape, ballads and stories of North East Scotland. Fabiana Galante Fabiana Galante, pianist and sound artist from Buenos Aires, has been working in the contemporary music scene in Argentina since the 1990s. Her main interest lies in musical interpretation and creation away from the ‘concert’ environment. This has led her to work with musicians, filmmakers, improvisers and performers on experimental collaborative projects throughout South America, Europe and the UK, and USA. She began her collaboration with Dudendance Theatre in 2000, combining wild track sampling and composing music for their films, site-specific performances and live work. Currently, Fabiana teaches at Universidad de Montevideo, Uruguay, and is working on several projects with multidisciplinary artists..