Go check it out here: http://www.minioperas.org/composer/wreckage-of-dreams-13/
ENO (English National Opera) will choose 10 soundtracks, from 130 entries, to continue to the next round August 6th.
Huuuge thanks to:
Man: Helgi R. Ingvarsson
Woman: Guðrún Matthildur Sigurbergsdóttir
Spoken word: Jenný Lára Arnórsdóttir & Haraldur Ágústsson
Choir: Guðrún Matthildur Sigurbergsdóttir, Jenný Lára Arnórsdóttir, Haraldur Ágústsson & Helgi R. Ingvarsson.
Piano: Matthildur Anna Gísladóttir
Cello: Þórdís Gerður Jónsdóttir.
Next up:
Small trip to Akureyri, Iceland. And then finishing my Mmus composition folio.
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More information about the opera:
"Wreckage of Dreams" is a mini opera, based on Shaun Gardiner´s script (http://basement-garden.co.uk/). The opening reads:
"The scene, lit only by the moon, is a small boat, adrift on the sea with a dead engine. A large number of refugees lie on the raft: they swamp it, almost concealing the shape of the hull. It is as if a mass of bodies floated on the sea. They have been adrift for fourteen days, and are dying of thirst and starvation"
This music/soundscape is a music/soundscape piece where I try to bring the audience into the world of the sea´s unpredictable currents, where the waves can be both gentle and aggressive, using only a piano, cello and 4 voices along with a few post-production effects. A larger orchestration could easily be created from this reduction. Although I treated Shaun´s script quite freely I was very intrigued by everything he wrote (written late june - july 23rd 2012).
