Cape Farewell - Art & Climate Change

Max Eastley's ARCTIC

Tuesday 10 April 2007, 7pm
World premiere at the Hamburg Planetarium

Max Eastley and Dave Hunt

Max Eastley’s ARCTIC premiered to a sell-out audience at the Planetarium in Hamburg, on Tuesday 10 April 2007.

ARCTIC is a series of sonic images. Their composition involved a process of sifting, editing and constructing from the many hours of recordings made in the Arctic. The work is a summation of my experience of the sublime: exhilaration, fear, and an overwhelming sense of tragedy unfolding before me. I hope that the music communicates my emotion, passion and concern for this fragile natural world.
Max Eastley, March 2007

The album is now available as a CD to buy online priced £10 exclusively at Cape Farewell. This 10 track album features sound recordings made on the Cape Farewell voyages including Bearded Seal, Nooderlicht Sailing Schooner and Barentsberg coal mine and recordings of the Arc, electro acoustic monochord played by Eastley at Cape Farewell exhibitions, Oxford 2005 and London 2006.

Max Eastley's ARCTIC was presented as part of Cape Farewell - Art & Climate Change, a collaboration with the British Council, Germany. The exhibition was created in partnership with the Natural History Museum, and has been made possible with support from Arts Council England, Cape Farewell's major arts funder. Also supported by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, The Bromley Trust, Toshiba, IXOS and plusequals, and our Hamburg partners Kampnagel Cultural Centre