NOW YOU SEE IT (Lola Perrin 2015)
For piano and an orchestra of words featuring the voices of 23 activists and innovators at the frontline of climate justice, a composer’s response to being in the age of climate change
(Dur. 30 minutes)
Composer/Producer: Lola Perrin
Co-producer Christian Dymond
Now You See It features live piano with a pre-recorded ‘voicescape’ made from the specially recorded spoken words of 23 international activists and innovators at the frontline of climate justice. The words are responses to Lola Perrin's questions designed to elicit inner meditations. The interviews were all recorded on webcam with ... a journalist in distant Costa Rica ... an outdoor philosopher in nearly out-of-signal northern Scotland ... a community activist down a lane in farthest Devon ... an expert in Burkina Faso ... sometimes we hear disturbed signals, and at all times we hear of the most disturbed subject of our time ...
