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ON THIS MONTH: FILM & MUSIC Ed Hughes A moment in a river’s history How do you capture landscape in music? For <strong>Lewes</strong> composer Ed Hughes, it’s a process that involves what he sees as much as what he hears. The colours, contours and edges of the physical world can all, through Ed’s eyes, be translated into a musical score. His latest composition was inspired by one of East Sussex’s most famous land features. Cuckmere: A Portrait, a Brighton Festival commission that premieres this month, is a collaboration between Ed, who is Head of Music at the University of Sussex, and acclaimed music documentary filmmaker Cesca Eaton. Ed’s live orchestral score and Cesca’s 25-minute silent film will give audiences a visual and sonic experience of a year in the life of Cuckmere, including the Haven, an area of flood plain between Seaford and Eastbourne where the river Cuckmere meanders to the English Channel. “For years I’ve loved walking in that area with my family,” says Ed. “It’s a place of great beauty and fragility, which has inspired so many artists. Its special light, space, shapes and colours were famously captured by the artist Eric Ravilious in his 1939 watercolour, Cuckmere Haven.” It is these qualities that Cesca and aerial cameraman Fergus Kennedy have captured in her film, and which Ed has used to create the four musical movements of his piece to represent autumn, winter, spring and summer. “I’m fascinated by how Cesca’s film creates drama through connecting different views - whether that’s the meandering of the river, or the flinty cuts in the chalk landscape, or the gradual curves of the Downs,” says Ed. “These all have geometrical, almost rhythmic aspects, which can translate into shapes in music. A sinuous pattern in the river could connect to a weaving motif in a particular instrument, such as a flute or a glockenspiel. The music and the picture are creating different languages side by side.” Ed and Cesca began the project two years ago, helped with funding from the Arts Council, and held workshops at local schools, including BHASVIC and East Sussex Academy of Music, to encourage young musicians to respond to Cesca’s film footage. What makes the project all the more urgent and poignant are the challenges to the area posed by rising sea levels and the cost of protecting it, adds Ed. “This is a portrait of the Cuckmere River through a year of seasons, but it is also a moment in its history. The fact that Cuckmere Haven will change has a powerful effect on us, perhaps because we long for an experience of beauty that is somehow permanent.” The premiere, which will be at the Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts at the University of Sussex on 5th <strong>May</strong>, will be followed by a discussion on the future of the environmental movement between Brighton Pavilion MP Caroline Lucas and author Tony Juniper, whose new book, Rainforest, draws on his many years’ experience as a frontline campaigner. A second performance, on 6th <strong>May</strong>, will include compositions played by schools that took part in the Cuckmere Project. Jacqui Bealing brightonfestival.org 31
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