The captivating performer-composer Laura Cannell presents the live version of her 2022 album Antiphony of the Trees.

Antiphony of the Trees, a multilayered work inspired by birdsong, was created in  Laura Cannell’s studio by manipulating live recorder playing with delay and reverb. For this event she recreates it as an exciting live show by transforming and diffusing the sound in the space to recreate the sonic world of the album with the use of pedals, and roaming speakers attached to performers, an immersive journey inside the treetops.

From slow chordal drones to the sound of rapidly beating wings, Cannell plays all the parts of all the birds: the hoarders, the gatherers and the sacred birds.  The avian arias which dominate the sky are echoed and the response comes from a new voice.

The performance will last approximately 60 minutes.

Reviews

“When the roads and skies were forced into quietude, the birdsong took over. The skies and branches were full of clarity with avian voices echoing through the crisp air of the fen valley. Every day it felt like the dawn chorus was getting louder, longer and stronger. The hyper-focussed trilling of antiphonal calls permeated the stillness. The birds were singing so loudly that I had to sing back.” Laura Cannell

‘haunting, evocative, and strung through with a sense of brooding magic.’ 4/5 BUZZ Magazine  

‘Wordless yet brimming with meaning and life, the album brings fragmented moments of nature into a singular curtain of minimalist but layered sounds in ode, in celebration and in reflection of bird song – transforming something that exists in abundance into something brand new and memorable’ The Quietus