A Beautiful Path/ Ossenlied:
I am a composer and I am currently walking solo across England, the Netherlands, Wales and Ireland in a east to west direction! This project is an ongoing artistic research project wherein over a year I plan to walk to walk across these countries writing music and thinking about creative ideas. The walking track is like an artist residency and is my outside composition studio. Along the way I composer the music that will be included in the performance A Beautifulpath: Ossenlied, an epic song cycle made in response to this experience. The project is about the intersection of nature and culture and and the ecosystem of walker in dialogue with the environments through which she walks. It is an environmental statement in support of infrastructure for long distance walkers, the cultural connection with landscape and heritage and pollinating insects especially Bees!!! Because without bees there is no nature and Nature Is Music. 

The Project:
 She is seeking support to fund her long distance walking route to cover the costs of accommodation and living expenses including food. It is a non profit adventure and any donations extra than these costs will go towards supporting environmental initiations, especially supporting bees and other pollinating insects.

"I want to sing the landscape to life - it is already alive but it is bursting with stories and magic that want to be found and listened to and heard. I want to tap into the wild energy. I love it so much!" - Kate Moore

This artistic research is about the creative process at the intersection between nature and culture. Outside, where the atelier has no walls, ‘plein air composing’ captures the authentic colours and changing light in the fields and forests directly as the composer is immersed in it. The route itself is a living score, one that depicts music as opposed to a composition that depicts a landscape. Set in motion, the rhythm of steps through an orchestration of evolving ecosystems is a fluctuating sensory and emotive experience as the surroundings change in mood and temperature similar to the experience of listening to music in a concert as it unfolds. In doing so the composer is translating natural ecosystems into the language of music.

PLEASE NOTE: Photo above is by Isabelle Vigier www.isabellevigier.com (copyright: all rights reserved)