Andrew
Dodds, 'Alive!'
Andrew
Dodds has collaborated with teenage musicians from Trinity
College of Music and composer Kerry Andrew to create
an original soundtrack that explores cultural resonances
of the horror film genre.
Tracing associations between adolescence, media preoccupations
with 'youth' and clandestine uses of the site at Grain,
‘Alive!’ is the unsettling score to an imagined
‘teen slasher' film set in the landscape. Composed
and performed by 14 and 15 year-old musicians this mesmerising
and haunting work captures something of the inbetween
places adolescents often inhabit both physically and
psychologically.
The site of the broadcast, on the
periphery of Grain village, bears archetypal evidence
of use by the local youth such as bonfires, empty beer
cans and graffiti. In effect, through the writing and
playing of this new score, the orchestra have composed
the soundtrack to their own ‘environment’
but it also
hints at a wider malaise.
Commission
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