FERAL

FERAL is an audio/visual piece based on the book by, and featuring George Monbiot created in collaboration with director Josh Ben-tovim (Impermanence Dance). It exists in two formats - A concert format piece for Piano Trio, Fixed Media and Film, and as a Film.

The piece takes as it’s starting point a desire to explore some of the themes and ideas in George Monbiot’s powerful and important book Feral: Rewilding the Land, Sea and Human Life (2013), and in particular human loss of connection with the natural world.

The film portrays intergenerational experiences of the moving body in evocative elemental hinterland locations. Filming took place at several locations across the UK including Avonmouth estuary, Wistman’s Wood (a high-altitude miniature oak forest on Dartmoor), and flooded fields of Oxfordshire.The audio weaves a tapestry of text, instrumental music, foley and raw and manipulated on-location field recordings – playing with ideas of the natural, the processed, layering, association and dissociation.

Commissioned by the LSO and premiered by David Alberman, violin, Laure Le Dantec cello and Eliza McCarthy piano.