Sunday 18 May 6.30pm
£22.00 (£20.00 concessions | £7.00 under 35

with video design by YeastCulture and on-screen dance by Mavin Khoo

Light Stories was born from a wish to tell a personal story in sound and image: the tale of a near-tragic event in my teenage when I attempted to take my own life during a psychotic episode brought on by a drug overdose, and the subsequent healing through music and therapy.

I had been wanting to compose for many years and this presented itself as an ideal vehicle for this new aspect of being a musician. The music is almost all for multi-tracked cellos, but there are also synthesizer sounds, percussion, keyboards and a collection of Brazilian birdcall pipes.

The Seven Basic Plots by Christopher Booker outlines the archetypical tales we tell ourselves, and one of them, Voyage and Return, resonated especially, so I divided up my life story into 15 parts, giving each part a sentence or two to sum it up. I then matched pieces from my repertoire to these chapters, and where there was no existing work, I wrote something.

Yeast Culture’s video design also features Mavin Khoo dancing, bringing a human element to the wide range of often nature-inspired imagery.

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