Glaucous by benjin & Nina Royle
This experimental audio essay is a collaboration with artist Nina Royle. Comissioned by the TATE, it was performed for the first time in September 2018 at the TATE St Ives. It combines a poetic treatise on the colour blue with Harp and found sounds composed and arranged by Benjin.
Inspired by the themes present within Patrick Heron's work, this new performance by Nina Royle explores the cultural and historical significance of blue. The performance considers the contradictions implicit within blue - extreme joy and extreme sadness, the sea, the sky - and the slippery, problematic nature of using words to single out and classify colours.
Mixed, Arranged and Recorded by Benjin, Mastered by Lhasa Mencur
Tracklist
| 1. | Glaucous | 22:43 |
Credits
Nina Royle, Benjin.
License
All rights reserved.
benjin is a multi instrumentalist who has toured and recorded with a number of experimental ensembles over the last 20 years. His solo compositions use classical guitar, cello, harp, clarinet, vocals, nyckelharpa, field recordings and found sounds. Aside from regular concert performances, benjin's music has been featured on BBC Radio 6 Music, Radio 3 and at the TATE Galleries.