In his album review to The Rhythms Of Migration, the debut offering from the Freedom To Roam project, David Pratt opens by saying, “Sometimes a piece of music transcends being merely a listening experience, however excellent a listen it may be, and The Rhythms Of Migration, certainly far in excess of being merely ‘excellent’, is one such creation.”
The brainchild of Eliza Marshall, flautist with Ranagri, Freedom to Roam is a music and film project inspired by a desire for universal compassion and respect for nature. Released on 26th November 2021 following a successful Kickstarter campaign, the lineup for the album The Rhythms of Migration included Catrin Finch, Jackie Shave, Dónal Rogers, Kuljit Bhamra, Evan Carson, Joby Burgess, Robert Irvine, Andrew Morgan and Lydia Lowndes-Northcott. The recording was produced by Drew Morgan (Royal Academy/Massive Attack).
This spring, Freedom to Roam will take the album on tour when they will play the entire Rhythms of Migration album after a screening of the accompanying documentary by multi-award-winning director Nicholas Jones (A Greenlander, You Are Here). During the performance, they will play with a backdrop of stunning projections by acclaimed video designer Amelia Kosminsky. Below you can watch one of her striking and contemplative creations for the album track Seekers. Read more about Amelia and her involvement in this project below. For this particular piece of work, she tells us:
With Seekers, I wanted to explore different modes of travel, whether that be hot air balloons, cross country trains or journeying by boat. The music gave a sense of a forward motion, an exploratory feel. When Eliza wondered whether travel could expand beyond earth, I felt that the video for this track should end somewhere placed between space and earth.
Amelia Kosminsky is a visual artist focusing on video design, light sculpture and photography. She studied Video Design for Live Performance at Guildhall School. Amelia has been the video designer for the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, the Barbican, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Gerard McBurney and the Philharmonia Orchestra at the Queen Elizabeth Hall and Sir Simon Rattle with the London Symphony Orchestra.
Amelia’s practice is focused on slowing life down to have time to see the beauty around us. A large part of this practice is influenced by her experience with hidden disabilities. As a result, Amelia’s work is predominately peaceful, contemplative and quiet, using light as a medium to produce striking images.
Working on Freedom to Roam:
“I was so happy to be asked to be involved with this project with Eliza Marshall and the collective who came together to create Freedom to Roam. I first asked Eliza and her fellow composers to sum up each tracks in a few sentences to give me a feel of not only the track as a whole but also the evolution of the music as it was written. Following this, using source images or my own original photography, I then set about creating abstract, evolving, almost dreamscapes that fit each piece. They have been created with minute movement, so that, were the viewer to look at a musician playing and then look back, they wouldn’t have noticed any change taking place.”
Learn more about Amelia and her work here: https://www.ameliakosminsky.co.uk/
Freedom To Roam Spring Tour
Tuesday 22 February – The Apex, Bury St Edmunds
Wednesday 23 February – Aberystwyth Arts Centre
Thursday 24 February – The Stoller Hall, Manchester
Friday 25 February – Howard Assembly Room, Leeds
Wednesday 2 March – St George’s, Bristol
TICKET LINKS: https://www.freedomtoroam.earth/tour/
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