Leaving My Homeland

The Rhythms of Migration
Eliza Marshall’s Freedom To Roam

Composed by Jackie Shave

Visual Artist - Amelia Kosminsky

BIO
Amelia Kosminsky is a visual artist focusing in video design, light sculpture and photography. She studied Video Design for Live Performance at Guildhall School. Amelia has been the video designer for BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, the Barbican, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Gerard McBurney and the Philharmonia Orchestra at the Queen Elizabeth Hall and Sir Simon Rattle with the London Symphony Orchestra.
Amelia’s practice is focused on slowing life down to have time to see the beauty around us. A large part of this practice is influenced by her experience with hidden disabilities. As a result, Amelia’s work is predominately peaceful, contemplative and quiet, using light as a medium to produce striking images.

WORKING ON FREEDOM TO ROAM
“I was so happy to be asked to be involved with this project with Eliza Marshall and the collective who came together to create Freedom to Roam. I first asked Eliza and her fellow composers to sum up each tracks in a few sentences to give me a feel of not only the track as a whole but also the evolution of the music as it was written. Following this, using source images or my own original photography, I then set about creating abstract, evolving, almost dreamscapes that fit each piece. They have been created with minute movement, so that, were the viewer to look at a musician playing and then look back, they wouldn’t have noticed any change taking place.

TICKETS AND INFORMATION

“A swallow awakens in Africa, it’s journey northwards knows no borders.
A green shoot bursts from the ground towards the sky.
A child leaves their home, seeking safer shores.

The rhythms of migration should have no boundaries.
Freedom to roam is nature.
Our humanity, wildlife and biodiversity are undeniably interconnected.

This project searches for compassion, hope and a positive way forward
to cherish this, our beautiful planet Earth.”

So read the sleeve notes for The Rhythms of Migration album from Eliza Marshall’s Freedom to Roam - a humanitarian and environmental project that was conceived during a visit to the Outer Hebrides in 2018. Inspired by a desire for universal compassion and respect for nature, and the realisation that we are nature, and that which affects one of us affects all of us. The album traverses themes such as climate change, conflict, restriction, empathy, what it actually means to be displaced with no choice, and has been beautifully crafted as a journey through universal responses to our own and the planet’s most pressing needs.

Kuljit Bhamra - tablas
Catrin Finch - harp
Jackie Shave - violin
Lydia Lowndes-Northcott - viola
Robert Irvine - cello
Eliza Marshall - flutes
Donal Rogers - guitars/bass
Joby Burgess - percussion
Evan Carson - percussion

Andrew Morgan - producer

INNOVATION AWARD WINNERS 2021 - Fatea Magazine

'Inspirational and thought-provoking' Songlines

'A musical masterpiece' FRUK

'Powerful, a cinematic soundtrack to the major issue of the decade' Irish Music Magazine