In collaboration with the City of London, Nonclassical presents 66 Days – a digital multimedia project marking 400 years since the Mayflower sailed to America. Each of our Associate Composers are working with a collaborator to present audio-visual works exploring the themes of journeys, migration and cultural identities.
Nonclassical Associate Composer Lola de la Mata and her chosen collaborator Britta Thie show us a glimpse of their creative process.
Lola and Britta’s multimedia work is centred around the concept of migration and travelling through technology – “Teleportation Already Exists - just not the way we thought it would”. They are exploring the idea of ‘ironed time’ by researching the façade of screens and exploring ways to disrupt the flatness we all interact with.
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Lola and Britta have shared some of their initial influences and inspirations that have resulted from their discussions, research and collaborative practice in this virtual scrapbook. These quotes, imagery and thinking points will feed in to their resulting video work.
Quotes
"Empathy is delivered two minutes too late" (context: internet delay)
– Britta Thie
"You can't order a replacement screen, it won't make it over the sea"
– Shopkeeper, Berlin
"Posting as a form of resistance"
– Lola de la Mata
“internet got infected - things go viral, there is a shift from an oasis to something toxic.”
– inspired by Natasha Stagg
"liquid crystals have a natural relaxed state”
– from research around different type of screen displays
Audio Experiments
Lola has created audio experiments around some quotes as part of her creative process.
Streams
A painting by Britta that will feature in the final multimedia work
About the artists
Lola de la Mata
Associate Composer Lola de la Mata is a London born French/Spanish composer, artist and musician (violin/voice/electronics). Her collaborative practice explores the experienced as embodied sound through the relationships between the bodies of the instrument, the performer and the architecture. Lola likes to challenge the one directional concert experience by placing performers around the ‘concert space’, writing for the body of the musician as well as the instrument for a more embodied sound. Her scores have been performed by Cecilia Bignall, Ensemble Entropy, Tre Voci, Distractfold Ensemble, and a CoMA trio featuring Aisha Orazbayeva. Lola’s music has been broadcasted on BBC Radio 3 and Resonance FM.
Britta Thie
Britta Thie is a director, artist, actor and model based in Germany. Her work has been shown in exhibitions at Anthology Film Archives, (New York), Mumok (Vienna), Auto Italia (London), the Sandy Brown Gallery (Berlin), the KW Institute for Contemporary Art (Berlin), the Kunstverein Göttingen, the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt and the Julia Stoschek Collection Berlin.
The four 66 Days commissions will be premiered online on Wed 16 September via Nonclassical’s YouTube channel, marking the date that the Mayflower arrived in America.
Commissioned by the City of London Corporation and in partnership with Mayflower 400 UK and Our City Together.
Watch the works created by our Associate Composers with collaborators for the 66 Days project.