Connected with the aroundNorth event for Deal Festival were a number of workshops for both primary and secondary school students that looked at some of the underlying elements that inform the astronomical work. This video is of a music workshop with music students from Canterbury’s Dane Court Grammar School who came to Pines Calyx to visit the installation and work in situ. In this practical music making session, the students explored ways of using astronomical data to inspire contemporary music composition and performance. The video was created by Bradley Lloyd-Prest on behalf of the host organisation (BayTrust) and the live recording was mixed by ‘Hand On Heart Arts’.

aroundNorth will be providing the focus for an immersive evening of art and music as part of this year’s Deal Festival, in Kent, on Tuesday 4th July.   The installation will play in the grounds of Pines Calyx from between 7pm and 10pm, and also within the garden on that evening will be a number of musical and artistic interventions with performances by musicians Stina Wilson (flute) and Andrey Debedev (guitar), as well as local artists creating live responses to the event and its concept.  The evening will also give the audience the opportunity to explore KRONOS – a newly designed path around the grounds which demonstrates the passing of time, from the ‘Big-Bang’ until the present day.  Booking for this event is directly through the festival.

Here is the eighth shorth film in our series of short film documenting aroundNorth. This one focuses on the return of the installation to the Beaghmore Stone Circles complex, near Cookstown, in Northern Ireland. A big thank you to all those who helped with this event, especially those brave enough to be interviewed for their thoughts of their experience.

Another great night, this time in the inspiring setting of the Beaghmore Stones complex.  For most of the evening we had clear skies, as well as a full moon rising in the east sky as the sun set in the west.  We had an audience of at least 150, enjoying the stones, the sound installation, the hot soup, and the telescope viewing.

A great night yesterday evening at Antrim Castle Gardens.  We set up in the Large Parterre Garden, which with its large circular centre, compass point pathways and lack of light pollution, was a brilliant location for the installation.  As usual, I prepared a guided listening chart showing the exact times that the more well-known stars will be sounding, and from which loudspeaker, and here I am in the above picture with Deputy Mayor Noreen McClelland & Councillor Jim Montgomery connecting the sounds heard with the stars overhead.