Name: At the Threshold
Start: 2023-03-21T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-03-21T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Hoffmann Building (Snape Maltings)

Organization

Aldeburgh Festival

Sound designer

Newton Armstrong

Soprano

Juliet Fraser

Soloist

Britten Pears Arts

At the Threshold

Snape

United Kingdom

Hoffmann Building (Snape Maltings)

Britten Studio

At the Threshold: Tracery: Hardanger Miller,C (+2 More)

Public

Private

Tracery: Hardanger

The Book of Sediments

The Mouth

Approved

Soprano Juliet Fraser presents a captivating triptych of musical works for voice and electronics including a collaboration with Festival featured composer Cassandra Miller.

The programme opens with the collaboration between Fraser and Miller. The performer puts on her headphones and settles down to meditate, for no-one but herself.

Inspired by the writings of marine biologist Rachel Carson (Silent Spring), Newton Armstrong’s work explores the image of a constant underwater “snowfall” of sediment that descends gradually to intensely dark depths, forming a swirling, descending murmuration of diversely particulate matter.

The programme concludes with a recent work by Rebecca Saunders, in which the mouth becomes a threshold, an opening to both the inner and the outer worlds.

Juliet Fraser soprano
Newton Armstrong sound

Cassandra Miller & Juliet Fraser:
Tracery: Hardanger (16’)
Newton Armstrong:
The Book of the Sediments (25’)
Rebecca Saunders:
The Mouth (UK premiere) (19’)

English

At the Threshold by Miller, Cassandra, Armstrong, N., Saunders, R., From (2023/2023), Hoffmann Building (Snape Maltings), Snape, United Kingdom

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