Erland Cooper & Ensemble
Plus Midori Jaeger
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Urgent. Evocative. Music that chills.
Groundbreaking composer and producer Erland Cooper is back at The Glasshouse after announcing his new album ‘Folded Landscapes’ – an urgent observation on themes of climate change, temperature and time. Featuring Poet Laureate Simon Armitage & Scottish Ensemble.
Prolific Scottish composer Erland Cooper, who merges music with evocative storytelling and conceptual art, tours his ambitious fourth studio album ‘Folded Landscapes’. Hailed as “nature’s songwriter”, his work celebrates themes of the natural world, place, people and time.
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Price: £21.50 to £23.70
Stage Times:
7.30pm Doors
8pm – 8.30pm Midori Jaegar
Interval (30mins)
9pm – 10.30 Erland Cooper & Ensemble
Please note timings are subject to change
Age: Under 14s must be accompanied by an adult.
‘I hope in this new work, a listener will be rewarded for their patience from a cold, glacial ascent by a slowly thawing, burning hope’
Erland Cooper
All about the music
‘Folded Landscapes’ sees Cooper work through the lens of urgent observations surrounding climate change creating a potent, experimental new work. In early 2022, Cooper began a collaboration with Scottish Ensemble, a collective of pioneering musicians crossing art forms, to champion music for strings. Using drastic temperature changes – from sub-zero to hottest on record – he developed this piece for chamber string ensemble, piano, voice, harpsichord, electronics and field recordings.
The finished album figuratively and literally thaws over 7-movements and features UK Poet Laureate Simon Armitage along with other special guests and samples, including activist Greta Thunberg , visual artist Norman Ackroyd and multi-award winning author, naturalist and conservationist Dara McNaulty leading a murmuration of familiar voices. Field recordings of the natural world include the California wildfires and crashing glaciers. Yet, out of the doom and gloom, beauty and hope bloom on Folded Landscapes.
