Acclaimed experimental artist and composer Matthew Herbert has announced details of a new Brexit inspired big band album.
According to the artist, this two year project will celebrate musical collaboration and communities across national borders.
It will begin in England at the point the UK government decides to trigger Article 50. Recording sessions and workshops will run alongside the Brexit negotiation process with an album to be released at the same point Britain leaves the European Union in 2019.
The project launches with the Brexit Sound Swap, a sound exchange scheme that anyone anywhere can contribute to by recording and uploading a sound of three seconds in length.
Commenting, Matthew said: ‘I simply wouldn’t be the musician or person I am were it not for the countless collaborators and interactions with people from very different backgrounds, and nationalities to my own.
‘I have learned so much, from so many disparate and often overlooked voices. The message from parts of the Brexit campaign were that as a nation we are better off alone. I refute that idea entirely and wanted to create a project that embodies the idea of collaboration from start to finish.’
A beta version of the website can be found here brexitsoundswap.eu. The finished website will be launched publicly the day the UK government triggers Article 50.
The album itself will begin with just one sound and then add layer upon layer, adding musicians, singers, choirs, soloists and big bands from across Europe until it reaches upwards of 1,000 people performing at once. Lyrics will be sung in different languages and the lyrical and thematic content developed with established writers.
The record will be released on Matthew’s own label accidental in collaboration with other record companies and institutions across the world.
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According to the artist, this two year project will celebrate musical collaboration and communities across national borders.
It will begin in England at the point the UK government decides to trigger Article 50. Recording sessions and workshops will run alongside the Brexit negotiation process with an album to be released at the same point Britain leaves the European Union in 2019.
The project launches with the Brexit Sound Swap, a sound exchange scheme that anyone anywhere can contribute to by recording and uploading a sound of three seconds in length.
Commenting, Matthew said: ‘I simply wouldn’t be the musician or person I am were it not for the countless collaborators and interactions with people from very different backgrounds, and nationalities to my own.
‘I have learned so much, from so many disparate and often overlooked voices. The message from parts of the Brexit campaign were that as a nation we are better off alone. I refute that idea entirely and wanted to create a project that embodies the idea of collaboration from start to finish.’
A beta version of the website can be found here brexitsoundswap.eu. The finished website will be launched publicly the day the UK government triggers Article 50.
The album itself will begin with just one sound and then add layer upon layer, adding musicians, singers, choirs, soloists and big bands from across Europe until it reaches upwards of 1,000 people performing at once. Lyrics will be sung in different languages and the lyrical and thematic content developed with established writers.
The record will be released on Matthew’s own label accidental in collaboration with other record companies and institutions across the world.
twitter.com/brexitsoundswap
