See below for more on poetry/sound collaborations with Sound Artist, Sonja Heyer. Also other collaborations including a visual artist, a choreographer and as part of a light installation. Also as a poem set to music by Marisa Sharon Hartanto, a composer at the St Magnus festival, Orkney, and work as a librettist for the composer Fraser David Macdonald.
Music
The Leaving of St Kilda
My poem set to music for voices by Fraser David Macdonald for the Edinburgh University Chamber Choir, performed in the Stefanskirk,
Cophenhagen during their summer tour of Denmark and Sweden, 2025. It has been performed by several choirs in Edinburgh, most notably
by St Giles Cathedral choir at the prestigious 750th commemoration of the Auld Alliance concert in the cathedral in October, 2025.
2018-20 Sound
'Berlin Umbrella' A collaboration with Sound Artist, Berlin-based Sonja Heyer on 'a site- specific 'aural walk' produced by lettretage and launched in Viktoria Park , Kreuzberg, Berlin in June, 2018, supported by Creative Scotland, the British Council, Berlin and the Goethe Institut, Glasgow.
It also appeared at StAnza Poetry Festival in 2020.
Promotional video (not the full work): Berlin Umbrella
Watch a vimeo about Berlin Umbrella
click here.
See Stephanie's BLOG for
background, process and development of 'Berlin Umbrella.'
Plus litterage's interview, and a guest post from Sonja.
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2020 Prints
'Berlin Water' a series of prints created by Valerie Coffin Price
(calligrapher and artist, Cardiff-based) was inspired by
'Berlin Umbrella' and exhibited at StAnza Poetry Festival at the
same time as our sound/walk.
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2015, Dec Dance
'Ayre' from Flout (HappenStance, 2015) inspired a dance piece choreographed
by Matthew Hawkins and was performed by Platinum Dance at the
Queen's Hall, Edinburgh. See my Blog on Ayre
2015, Nov. Light installation
'Light' was part of an installation in the 'Dark Closes' project in Dumfries;
2015, Oct Fine Art
'Honesty' a watercolour by Jean Ashcroft was inspired by my poem of
that name and the two exhibited together at the Ladybank Art Gallery,
in the former Station Master's House, Fife. See Blog for view of
picture, Honesty.
2013, June Music
'The Child of Breckon Sands' from Flout (HappenStance, 2015) was set to music for voice and piano by Marisa Sharon Hartanto and performed by
mezzo- soprano, Alison Wells at a Masterclass in the Peedie Kirk,
St Magnus Festival, Orkney, 2013. See my Blog on my selkie poem
'Unst': Poetry and Sound collaboration with Mark Harding.
Electronic soundscape
click here
2023, May 'Rewilding: Brodgar: poetry/sound walk' A second collaboration with Sound Artist, Berlin-based, Sonja Heyer, a celebration and lament for endangered species, appeared as part of the Orkney Nature Festival on site or online.
For background on the research and development see my Blog.
Listen or read text
https://rewildingbrodgar.netlify.app/
