Noise of the Past

Noise of the Past presents two new related commissions produced from a creative call-and-response method to cast a different light on war and the art of dialogue.

Screening of Unravelling - A film by Kuldip Powar, with original score by Nitin Sawhney

Performance of Post-Colonial War Requiem – composed by Francis Silkstone

A Special Opening by Martin Bell - OBE, UNICEF Ambassador, former war reporter & independent politician.

Unravelling (2008, 17 mins) is the result of a unique film-making process, creatively working with poetry, archive materials, visual art and music. Internationally acclaimed Nitin Sawhney composed a new score in response to an original inter-generational poetic dialogue in Urdu between Sawarn Singh, a WWII Indian soldier who fought for the British in Burma, the Middle East and Africa, before moving to the UK, and his grandson, Kuldip Powar. Working with this haunting score Powar directed an evocative and searching film.

Francis Silkstone has also taken the inter-generational poetic dialogue as the source of inspiration for Post-Colonial War Requiem, a new score to be performed in interaction with the phenomenal space of Coventry Cathedral. Benjamin Britten's original War Requiem inaugurated the newly-built Cathedral in 1962, offering Remembrance without militarism. Though consciously inclusive, it did not reference the contributions of the (now former) colonies.

Pre-Launch Conference: War, Sound & Post-Coloniality

Saturday 8 November 2008, 1.30 – 5pm
St Mary's Guildhall, Bayley Lane, Coventry, CV1 5RR -http://bit.ly/guildhall-map
FREE - Register in advance, email: j.daykin@gold.ac.uk

Further information: http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/methods-lab/noise-past.php

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