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Water's Edge
Awakened from the life she has been living far inland, a woman stands at a fjordside and remembers the open sea. She remembers the freedom of a distant childhood, and the chances she did not take. Water’s Edge is a richly evocative meditation on memory and the unlived life. From one woman’s quiet regret, it opens out on to a landscape of epic consequences.
The Water’s Edge project is a collaboration between composer Monty Adkins and writer Deborah Templeton. The two artists entered into a free-flowing creative conversation in which fragments of music inspired text, and fragments of text inspired music. As each artist followed themes and images in the other’s work, story and sound co-emerged. The result is three artworks: a short story, a musical composition, and a radiophonic work which sets an abridged version of the story within the music.
The radiophonic work is available as a free download to purchasers of Water's Edge.
The Water’s Edge project is a collaboration between composer Monty Adkins and writer Deborah Templeton. The two artists entered into a free-flowing creative conversation in which fragments of music inspired text, and fragments of text inspired music. As each artist followed themes and images in the other’s work, story and sound co-emerged. The result is three artworks: a short story, a musical composition, and a radiophonic work which sets an abridged version of the story within the music.
The radiophonic work is available as a free download to purchasers of Water's Edge.
48 pages, Paperback
First published April 13, 2023
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August 4, 2023
Thus is exactly the sort of innovative publishing that small indie presses exist for, so it's disappointing to see so little attention paid to it by the reviewing community.
The texts in themselves are compelling - a progressive series of short texts of exquisite precision and poetic restraint, accompanied by similarly controlled monochrome photographic illustrations by Zoe McLean. But the publication fully comes into its own with the radiophonic version of the stories: the texts, beautifully read by the author, to a setting - instrumental and vocal - composed by Monty Adkins, played by Sarah-Jane Summers on Fidufiddle, and Seth Parker Woods on cello (who also plays solo a bonus composition based on samples from Water's Edge, called Winter Tendrils), with vocals by Susie Green and Sophie Fetokaki. The radiophonic version is accessed by either QR code, printed in the book, or as free download from the publisher, Confingo's website when buying the book.
This is an 'immersive' experience of the stories which is truly superb, a complete sound world rendering the texts multi-dimensional, and a landmark in small-press publishing.
The texts in themselves are compelling - a progressive series of short texts of exquisite precision and poetic restraint, accompanied by similarly controlled monochrome photographic illustrations by Zoe McLean. But the publication fully comes into its own with the radiophonic version of the stories: the texts, beautifully read by the author, to a setting - instrumental and vocal - composed by Monty Adkins, played by Sarah-Jane Summers on Fidufiddle, and Seth Parker Woods on cello (who also plays solo a bonus composition based on samples from Water's Edge, called Winter Tendrils), with vocals by Susie Green and Sophie Fetokaki. The radiophonic version is accessed by either QR code, printed in the book, or as free download from the publisher, Confingo's website when buying the book.
This is an 'immersive' experience of the stories which is truly superb, a complete sound world rendering the texts multi-dimensional, and a landmark in small-press publishing.
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