EARTH AND SKY

(2025)

Earth & Sky is a geolocative audio application commissioned and produced by Opera North for Bradford 2025 City of Culture’s Wild Uplands programme, supported by the Delius Trust, and developed by ECHOES.

Opera North commissioned contemporary electronic composer and Venice Biennale’s artistic director of music, Caterina Barbieri, Kenyan experimental composer Nyokabi Kariuki and Welsh multidisciplinary artist Gwen Siôn to create new music and sound works in response to the untamed upland site soaring 1,000 feet above Haworth.

The resulting pieces are woven together by soundscapes and electroacoustic interjections made from on-site field recordings by myself, and new poetry written especially for the walk by Bradford-born poet Nabeelah Hafeez.

Find out more and download the app here: https://www.operanorth.co.uk/whats-on/earth-sky/