Sights and Sounds of Isolation

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Runaway Model

As part of our ‘Sights and Sounds of Isolation’ art project that ran over the summer, we asked members of the public to send in their own artworks, compositions, and other creative pursuits, hoping to spark some exciting collaborations.
 
When visual artist Kris Sahlholt sent ‘Runaway Model’, a humorous, tender poem that she had written one lockdown evening, it inspired sonic composer and Tinderbox participant Sonia Killmann to create this beautiful ambient track around Kris’ spoken words.
 
Have a listen to the track here.
 
Image: Kris Sahlholdt
Track Credits: Kris Sahlholdt and Sonia Killmann
 
And if you enjoyed Sonia’s sounds and want to have a go at playing around yourself, you can purchase her recently released pack of samples here.

Runaway Model

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Humble Stay (Tinderbox Online Lyric Video)

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Shadows At Night

Songwriting projects are one of the staples of the Tinderbox creative music offerings. They are a brilliant way to show how everyone has an abundance of musical creativity, no matter what age, experience or background. It’s also very handy if you have a large team of experienced musicians and an entire orchestra to add into the mix once you have a finished song.

Lockdown presented a great many challenges, but also some surprising opportunities. The Shadows At Night songwriting project has been one of these opportunities.

At the very beginning of lockdown we started a songwriting group as part of our online music school. We quickly found that the Zoom chat function is an ideal way to collaborate on lyric writing. Over 3 or 4 sessions the young people came up with the lyrics, melody and structure of the song.

Once we had a rough recording of the song to click track we were able to take it to the Tinderbox Online Orchestra who were rehearsing every week. We shared the recording on Zoom audio and had a few practices through the track. Then orchestra members recorded themselves improvising along to the track on their phones or whatever recording device they had to hand, and sent in their recordings. The tracks were then compiled, edited and mixed by Garry Boyle at Slate Room Studio. All this happened within the space of a week!

We were so excited by the end result that we decided to take it further and asked Dominika Jackowska to facilitate a project to produce an animation for the song. Dominika is part of our Tinderbox Lab project and had been working on animation for online game design projects. She led a series of workshops to enable young people to generate the content for the animation and also to show them how the animation process works.

It has been such a rewarding project and we hope you enjoy checking out the song!

Thanks to everyone involved including the Tinderbox Songwriting group, Tinderbox Orchestra and Dominika Jackowska. Special mentions to Sophie for lyrical inspiration and Julia Dorozynska on lead vocals.

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Rimo (Tinderbox Online Version)

This recording of the Tinderbox Classic ‘Rimo’ by Luci Holland was recorded entirely during lockdown on phones and home devices by individual orchestra players while connected over Zoom.

Moving Tinderbox Orchestra online came with unforeseen technical hurdles and complications, but over the last few months we’ve persevered, experimented and worked together to be able to continue playing together every week as normal.

We meet together on Zoom every Sunday and have been recording online versions of Tinderbox classics, including Bethany Lane and Rimo – returning to such familiar favourites has allowed us to get used to new ways of playing! We have also been rehearsing a new arrangement of ‘I Wanna Dance With Somebody’ (originally by Whitney Houston), which was put together by the Tinderbox Arranging Group over the last few months.

As well as rehearsing songs, the orchestra have also been experimenting with trying out different methods of improvisation over video call. A Tinderbox rehearsal in the Jazz Bar typically involves a session of ‘Suggesture’; a method of improvising, conducted using a series of hand gestures that was developed by conductor Mike Kearney. It’s been tricky to translate into a Zoom call, but we’ve been testing out different methods (some of which we showed at our Tinderbox Livestream!)

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Sights and Sounds of Isolation Collaborative Film: Project One

Our ‘Sights and Sounds of Isolation Film Project’ began with the goal to create work from our simultaneously separated and collective experience. It aimed to capture all the different things that we were looking at and listening to, and what this time of isolation forced us to focus in on. We gathered images, footage and audio clips and brought these together into collaborative video and sound pieces. You can check out the other videos here.

This video is the project’s first fully developed outcome and it is made up of film and audio clips that Tinderbox participants have recorded from their immediate environment, responding to the idea of looking more closely at their now very intimate surroundings.

This video features recordings by Luci Holland, Sonia Killmann, Oliver Entwisle, Sunny Yoon, Niki Dunne and Rhona Sword.

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Arranging Group

A number of people in the Tinderbox Orchestra have been meeting up and working on some new arrangements to play during our online Sunday rehearsals.

The group have arranged a great version of Whitney Houston’s 1987 dance-pop classic, ‘I Wanna Dance With Somebody’, and have some new arrangements in the pipeline.

Arranging music together online has presented some interesting challenges. Each member of the group took on a specific section of the orchestra (e.g. Woodwinds, Strings, Brass, etc.) and worked on their parts over the course of the week, consolidating them during the arranging sessions and fitting them all together.

It was hard to know what other people were creating, and the variations in melody and rhythm throughout the parts created some interesting harmonies and new ways to approach the arrangement.

The orchestra have been working hard to rehearse the arrangement over the last month and a recording will hopefully be ready soon for everyone to listen to, and the group has some exciting new ideas for future projects to work on with the orchestra!

Keep your eyes (and ears) peeled for a recording soon!

 

Check out what our other Tinderbox Cafes have been up to here!

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Music Quiz Night Quiz

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‘Pome’

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Sights and Sounds of Isolation Collaborative Film – Project Two

Our ‘Sights and Sounds of Isolation Film Project’ began with the goal to create work from our simultaneously separated and collective experience. It aimed to capture all the different things that we were looking at and listening to, and what this time of isolation forced us to focus in on. We gathered images, footage and audio clips and brought these together into collaborative video and sound pieces. You can check out other videos from the project here.

The second outcome was a result of artists Sonia Killmann and Rhona Sword being inspired by this process to make a more focussed and intentional work. Drawing upon the isolating and claustrophobic effects of lockdown, they have been working together to create pieces that aim to capture a sense of more intense intimacy with the natural world that has come from current circumstances.

Created collaboratively, with Sonia first composing a soundscape from found recording and Rhona creating a moving image work in response to this, it utilised their respective disciplines of composition and visual art, and was selected to be included in the ‘Cabin Fever’ art publication.

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Bethany Lane (Tinderbox Online Version)

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Drawing Group

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Chase Out The Bug

During the lockdown the Tinderbox Lab has been running weekly Virtual Studio & Game Development sessions, where young musicians and artists have been getting together to share skills, help keep each other motivated and work on different projects. 

Recently the sessions have developed into a game-development project where we have been learning a programme called Construct 3 and making online games together.  

‘Chase Out The Bug’ was the first game that the Tinderbox Lab developed online together, and was an exciting and experimental learning process for everyone involved! It was featured at out first Tinderbox Online Gig and is created using artwork from our Lab members as well as our Tinderbox Drawing Group, with sounds from Sonia Killmann.

A huge congratulations to everyone involved in its creation!

You can have a go of the game yourself here!

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Tinderbox Tuesdays

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Sights and Sounds of Isolation Collaborative Film – Project Three

Our ‘Sights and Sounds of Isolation Film Project’ began with the goal to create work from our simultaneously separated and collective experience. It aimed to capture all the different things that we were looking at and listening to, and what this time of isolation forced us to focus in on. We gathered images, footage and audio clips and brought these together into collaborative video and sound pieces. You can check out the other videos from the project here.

The third project is a result of experimenting with the possibilities of online music making and composition, and was produced in conjunction with the Tinderbox Orchestra.

The musciains experimented with improvising in response to each other over Zoom, which allowed composer Sonia Killmann to collect the recordings and mix them into an atmospheric soundscape. This provided the inspiration and framework to create put together a film created from video fragments collected from our lockdown experiences.

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Musical Asteroids

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Hey Jude – Symphony of a Thousand

Is it possible to get 1000 people playing together online?

On Sunday 21st June, alongside the Music Education Partnership Group (MEPG), we gave it our best shot! You can see the results for yourself here!

Together we played and sang along to the classic Beatles song Hey Jude in an attempt to form the world’s biggest ever online band!

Music, lyrics, a backing track and other resources are still available at: https://wemakemusiconline.weebly.com

The event started with a few practice runs, and then we live-streamed a performance together on facebook for Make Music Day.

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Tinderbox Livestream

Our second online gig was streamed live on Facebook on 20th June, 7-8:30pm. We would have been playing at Solas Festival on the very same day, and whilst we were sad not to be there in real life, it was great we can link up and celebrate together online.

The stream featured performances from lots of young musicians and singers, some online orchestral experiments and some amazing guest acts and collaborators, including:

– The Jellyman’s Daughter (Edinburgh’s spellbinding duo, with their beautiful mix of guitar, cello and vocals)
– EBB (6-piece band from The Lodge Arts Collective in Lockerbie – all living together in the same house in lockdown!)
– No Moniker (Edinburgh musician and rapper)
– Jed and Jo (blistering guitar, banjo, fiddle and harmonies)
– DJ Dynamite (bringing us all that funk and soul)

Also featuring:
Imogen, Kuba, Jon, Amelia, Maciej, Simon, Shiloh, Chelsea, Liam, Christopher, Robert and Robert, Action for Children and the Tinderbox Lab.

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Tinderbox Online Gig

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Over the Rainbow Project

The Music Education Partnership Group organised a “Musical Rainbow” to say thank you to heroes across the country in support of the NHS and all key workers at 8pm Thursday 30th April! Musicians across Scotland joined in with recordings of their performances of the Wizard of Oz classic ‘Somewhere Over The Rainbow’, and all of us at Tinderbox thoroughly enjoyed having a go and taking part in such a brilliant initiative.

Music Education Partnership Group – MEPG: https://www.facebook.com/mepgscotland

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