Award-winning composer and sound artist Nichola Scrutton weaves together field recordings, voice, fragments of text, visualisations, stories, performance, archive materials and collaborative productions in a sonic contemplation of inner/outer landscapes, producing a transient dream-like encounter based upon the flowing of water.
Dream Stream
“Water is…constantly dissolving and solidifying, washing away and re-forming in perpetual transformation”
-Sensitive Chaos, Theodor Schwenk
Dream Stream weaves together field recordings, voice, fragments of text, visualizations, stories, performance, and archive materials in a sonic contemplation of inner/outer landscapes. The sound of water is a thread across the whole duration. From that constantly shifting ‘surface’, various other sound worlds emerge and recede in a transient dream-like encounter.
Dream Stream is populated with past and present ideas and materials:
Field recordings, including binaural and hydrophone recordings from Scotland, Sri Lanka (Sura Medura Artist Residency), and La Gomera
Sound compositions - sections and fragments from my sound archive Nidra visualizations
Night Vision text and found text
Performance - spoken word, improvisations, voice, guitar Dream stories from contributors
Collaborative projects - sections and re-worked materials created with other artists
Many thanks indeed to collaborators and contributors who are listed below, with links where applicable.
The Programme Schedule outlines the main elements weaving through water in each hour. Otherwise, visualizations, improvisations, and other fragments of material are scattered throughout.
Nichola Scrutton is an award-winning composer/sound artist, vocalist, improviser, and artist working across a range of media. Her work has been broadcast internationally, and she has extensive experience as a collaborator in a range of interdisciplinary and participatory contexts. Nichola is based in Glasgow, Scotland, and was awarded a practice-based PhD in electroacoustic composition from the University of Glasgow in 2009. She worked in Music there for two years before going full-time freelance.