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All Compositions & Sound Design by Edwin Hind
Black Poppy (This is My Story)
Concrete and Green presents an impassioned two part aural theatre piece that recounts the story of 16-year-old Herbert Morris, a Jamaican boy soldier, who was executed 100 years ago by the British army for desertion. The inspiration was taken from the Chapter, ‘A Jamaican Lad Shot At Dawn’from the book ‘Black Poppies’(Borne, S, 2014)
1: Black Poppy (Foley Art Mix) reimagines the last morning of Herbert Morris’s life through the use of Foley Art.
Part 2: Black Poppy (This is My Story)
Concrete and Green presents an impassioned two part aural theatre piece that recounts the story of 16-year-old Herbert Morris, a Jamaican boy soldier, who was executed 100 years ago by the British army for desertion. The inspiration was taken from the Chapter, ’A Jamaican Lad Shot At Dawn’ from the book ‘Black Poppies’ (Borne, S, 2014)
Third Year Portfolio Piece: ‘Black Poppy’ – Part 1 (Foley Art Mix) Composed and performed by Edwin Hind 2019
Third Year Portfolio Piece: ‘Black Poppy’ – (This My Story) – Part 2 Composed and performed by Edwin Hind 2019
Third Year Portfolio Piece The 100% of Egon
Sound Montages & Score by Edwin Hind (Concrete and Green) 2019
‘Sonically my aim was to create an atmospheric, futuristic, dystopian Aqua world’
The 100% of Egon is a 2D-animated short film warning of a possible fate for mankind. It presents a future where the planet Earth is completely flooded with water and the only real legacy of humanity are the swathes of garbage – large as countries – which float in the now infinite ocean. The only survivor is a Silicon Valley billionaire who has made himself near-immortal through “tech-innovation”, an innovation that saw a generation of the world’s youth enslaved to become blood fuel solely to extend the lifespan of one man. Egon, the near-immortal, lives his life in solitude where he signals to the universe for someone to come save him from the now wretched Earth – forever slave to his routine of constant rejuvenation.
This sound montage is an example of how I apply the creative use of field recording in my compositional process. To capture this environment I used a wide range of recording techniques and microphones to capture different sound sources. This piece was composed after a visit to Dungeness IN 2022 on a field recording week. The concept explores the idea of, ‘What if?’ there was a nuclear disaster in Dungeness.
The finished piece includes interviews with local people who live in the area and interviews with people who have visited Dungeness. This was also the first piece I composed which I felt had the potential to be performed as a site-specific piece, which I felt reflected the aesthetic of Concrete and Green.
Edwin Hind, 2022
Sound Montages & Score by Edwin Hind
Sound Montages & Score by Edwin Hind
Sound Montages & Score by Edwin Hind
Sound Montages & Score by Edwin Hind
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