The latest work by composer and artist Dr Claudia Molitor will receive its premier at the Spitalfields Winter Music Festival 2014.
Titled Vast White Stillness – the words from a poem by Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke – the work is part installation, part live performance. It will take place at the Toynbee studios (Commercial Street, E1 6AB) on Saturday 13 December and Sunday 14 December 2014.
Created in collaboration with director Dan Ayling, Vast White Stillness explores stillness, memory and ‘heimweh’, a sense of hovering between happiness and sadness.
Dr Molitor, who is a lecturer in Music and Audio Arts in the School of Music and Fine Art, is a composer and sound artist whose work draws on the traditions of contemporary music but extends to video, performance and fine art practice. She will play a major role in a collaborative project in 2015 called The Sonorama, which will involve the creation of an audio piece for the train journey from St Pancras to Margate.
Vast White Stillness follows another collaboration between Dr Molitor and Dan Aylgin called Remember Me: A Desk Opera, which was showcased at the Spitalfields Winter Festival in 2013.
The installation is supported by Ambache Charitable Trust and Arts Council England.
For more information, or to book tickets, visit: www.spitalfieldsmusic.org.uk/whats-on/winter-festival-2014/vast-white-stillness/
To hear an interview about Dr Molitor’s work visit The BBC Composers’ Rooms 16.