Arctic voyages searching for whales, and for lost ships – these form the starting-point for a collaboration between two musicians and a poet, in a blend of sound reaching from traditional Shetland fiddle music to creative improvisation with instruments, electronics and voice. The music is developed from the complex songs of the great whales, and the stories of the men who hunted them in the hostile Greenland seas – and the story of Captain Francis McClintock’s voyage in the yacht Fox to try to find news of the Franklin expedition.
CETACEA is a film with live music by Katherine Wren and Alex inspired by Lesley Harrison’s eponymous poem. It brings together the trio’s music and words with marine biologist Michael Scheer’s audio recordings and Alexander and Nicole Gratovsky’s beautiful underwater footage of the gracefully coordinated movements of pilot whales.
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