2023 Gosod Digidol

Taith Yr Ysbryd [‘Journey of the Spirt’ in English, and ‘Suikon’ in Japanese]. a sonic and visual exploration of our changing relationship with our landscape, is your 2023 Musicfest Digital Installation.

What is it?

This is a specially-commissioned collaboration in which two creatives either based in or from Wales will have the opportunity to collaborate with one another and create a digital installation inspired by the rich landscape and culture of Aberystwyth, and premiered as part of our International Music Festival and Summer School in summer 2023.

Taith Yr Ysbryd [‘Journey of the Spirt’ in English, and ‘Suikon’ in Japanese] is a sonic and visual exploration of our changing relationship with our landscape, and specifically the wonderful surroudings in Ceredigion. A stop motion animation, it tracks the path of Afon Rheidol from source, where the flow is immediately dammed and channeled for human ends, briefly allowed to meander as a mountain stream, before pooling up in the Nant y Moch Reservoir. The creative team comment, “This film uses images and sounds of the place to describe the texture of the water, the tranquility and playful ferocity of the babbles and brooks that line the mountainside, and the enormous interruption to the water’s flow that the dam creates. We finish with a view suggestive of the timescales involved in the life of a river, and a sense that there is more to come in the long story of the Rheidol.”

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