N A T U R
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The NATUR project was instigated as part of the European Union’s Year of Cultural Heritage and built on the partner’s work connecting Nordic Artists with one another and the UK to creatively explore shared stories, culture and heritage. It has delivered a series of new artworks, across music, visual and performing arts to activate the archives and promote our shared culture through major festival presentations.
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The first NATUR project has covered seven themes through the archives of each country that shaped and continue to forge a shared Northern identity - folklore and language, merchants, fisheries, industrialisation, conflict, oil, and women's history. Establishing the NATUR network through both narrative and working partnerships it will enable archives to more efficiently work with creative industries and support communities in accessing and creating international identities from the shared heritage of five deeply connected countries. By enabling artists from each country to undertake residencies with overseas partners it will trace the stories that fall between the gaps where one set of archives, memories and tales ends and another, over the water, begins.
NATUR and Buckie
Buckie and District Fishing Heritage Centre in partnership with Professor Peter Reid of the School of Creative and Cultural Business Robert Gordon University (RGU) in Aberdeen who has been researching the story of Buckie's wartime Norwegian and Danish communities hosted a NATUR artist residency. Eyvind Gulbrandsen, a Danish based composer, was selected by SICC Productions to visit Banffshire and Aberdeenshire in the North East of Scotland. He traced the roots of the many Danish and Norwegian people who sought refuge in the area during the Second World War. In recent years the Buckie Fishing Heritage and Professor Reid have worked together on other projects including social media use for community heritage groups and also the use of photo elicitation as a technique to encourage community heritage reminiscence and storytelling.
www.eyvindgulbrandsen.dk
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Eyvind Gulbrandsen
Eyvind Gulbrandsen is educated at the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus, Denmark and the Norwegian Academy of Music, Oslo, Norway under guidance by a.o. Karl Aage Rasmussen, Bent Sørensen, Rolf Wallin and Olav Anton Thommessen. For the last 15 years Gulbrandsen has lived and worked in Denmark as a freelance composer and a teacher in composition. His works include solo/chamber music, music for orchestra and theatre, electronic/electro-acoustic music and installations. His works often include performance, installations and scenery. He always work in close collaboration with his musicians to develop his compositions and in recent years has been focusing on the possibilities in co-creation with either the musicians, the audience, or both.
His main inspiration is the people he works with, the raw material for each piece being stories, objects or melodies regarding a certain topic or theme. Whichever route he explores his inspiration is most often the collected narratives of musicians’ lives seeing his pieces often being presented as a combination of a concert, intervention and installation; more an event, or happening, than a conventional performance. His works have been performed by acclaimed ensembles and musicians across the Nordic countries, Germany, England, USA and Canada and at festivals such as UNM, Nordic music Days, SPOR festival and Klang: Copenhagen Avantgarde Music Festival. |
Residency 1: 3 - 8 September 2018
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Residency 2:
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On Wednesday, 17 October, Eyvind spent time at the Bow Fiddle rock at Portknockie making sound recordings. A vintage radio also formed part of the day's recording.
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Thursday 18 October was our open afternoon at the Heritage Centre when locals came along with stories of the Norwegian and Danish communities during the war. The following day, we met up with Morag Flett, teacher of Primary Seven at Millbank Primary School which is a partner in the project and discussing ways in which P7 can makes sounds and recordings that will be used in the final installation.
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