NOW YOU SEE IT – A call for change

‘NOW YOU SEE IT’
FOR PIANO AND AN ORCHESTRA OF WORDS RECORDED FROM ACTIVISTS & INNOVATORS AT THE FRONTLINE OF CLIMATE JUSTICE

LONDON, VORTEX JAZZ CLUB March 16
HEBDEN BRIDGE PIANO FESTIVAL April 18
LONDON, MARKSON PIANOS CONCERT SERIES October 28

TWO MINUTE PROMO IS HERE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsHnQJQ1A54

Composer: Lola Perrin
Voices: recorded in interviews conducted by Christian Dymond and Lola Perrin

Voices are
Marjaun van Aubel, Ben Ayliffe, Guy Battle, Helen Caldicott, Charlotte Du Cann, Seamus Garvey, Natasha Geiling, Peter Gleick, David Helvarg, Jennifer Kingsley, Andreas Mershin, Katiana Murillo, Meena Nallainathan, Margo Perin, Kate Rawles, Carl Safina, Bert Schouwenburg, Joao Talocchi, Abdel Karim Traore, Will Travers, Greg Valerio

Backgrounds of the voices
Greenpeace, Blue Frontier Campaign, Blue Ocean Institute, Pacific Institute, Board of Oceana, Chasing Ice, Smithsonian, Sustainable Business Consultancy, Born Free, If You Love This Planet, IFEX, GMB, Fairtrade, Canadian broadcasting, Latin America media, mitigation in Africa, inventors at MIT and Nottingham University Faculty of Engineering, Transition Free Press, scientists, renewables designer, outdoor philosopher.

Description
Now You See It for piano and an orchestra of words is a new contemporary classical/minimalism/imaginative piano project with a voicescape made from the specially recorded spoken words of international activists and innovators at the frontline of climate justice. The words are responses to Lola Perrin’s questions designed to elicit inner meditations on cruelty, beauty, isolation, loss, overcoming difficulty and personal statement. The voicescape is a combination of words as mood & texture and words as information. The piano part uses new composition and also draws from Lola Perrin’s 8 piano suites, music described as “hauntingly compelling” (The Guardian).

March 16 at 8pm
Vortex Jazz Club, 11 Gillet Square, London N16 8AZ
Tickets £10 from www.vortexjazz.co.uk

April 18 at 4pm
Hebden Bridge International Piano Festival
Waterfront Hall at Hebden Bridge Town Hall, Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire HX7 7BY
Tickets £15/£12 www.hebdenbridgepianofestival.com

October 28 at 7pm
Markson Pianos Concert Series, St Mary Magdalene Church, Munster Square, London NW1 3PH
Tickets £6/£4 on the door

Composer statement
“We must all work for Mother Earth right now, it is obvious.” (Nelly Brooke age 85, December 2014)
“We have to stop pressing buttons and expecting things to happen, it’s ridiculous.” (Margaret Chalmers age 82, January 2015)