Charlotte Hathaway and Mike Vass have announced an exciting new project titled ‘The Dead Stations‘. Charlotte and Mike worked toegther on the Remembered/Imagined project, a piece that left within them a desire to create a more ambitious and more immersive piece. Inspiration for The Dead Stations came via a train ride through Brazil’s Atlantic Rainforest as well as abstract ideas about Little Red Riding Hood. The Dead Stations is in reference to the out of use platforms on the remote train line through the forested mountains. Joining them on vocal and viola is Mairi Campbell whom you can hear below on ‘Sleepless‘, our Song of the Day:
The project has been developed with a live audience in mind (see tour dates below), a story designed to be listened to: a mystery about loneliness and the mind – music, sound design and recorded voice actors to build the atmosphere, with animators creating accompanying images.
“The whole forest has this feeling of going on forever. And if you lose track of the trainline then you’re lost. But it hugs the mountain and that’s hard to lose. I think there must have been a lot of people living here once because sometimes there are roads that lead nowhere, and of course there’s the dead stations. They’re like these relics eaten by nature. Reclaimed by the forest. Like it’s taking them apart stone by stone. … No, the train never stops at any. They just chug past the window.”
Dead Stations Tour ft: Mairi Campbell
- Friday 26th February, Skye (SEALL at Sabhal Mor Ostaig)
- Saturday 27th February, Inverie (Knoydart)
- Sunday 28th February, Ardfern (Craignish Village Hall)
- Saturday 5th March, Banchory (Woodend Barn)
- Sunday 6th March, Drumnadrochit (Glenurqhart Public Hall)
- Friday 11th March, Edinburgh (Queens Hall, also featuring Yoann Mylonakis)
www.charlottehathaway.com
mikevass.com
www.mairicampbell.scot