Sunderland band Field Music have been commissioned to write and perform the soundtrack to a screening of silent documentary Drifters.
The Mercury Music Prize nominated group will perform the new composition live at the Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival, which runs 25-29 September.
Drifters is a film from 1929 which charts the working day of a herring fishing fleet as it sets sail from the Shetland Islands into the North Sea.
The commission, which has been supported by PRS for Music Foundation and Arts Council England, sees Field Music’s original line up of brothers Peter and David Brewis unite with Andrew Moore for the first time since 2007.
David said of the commission: ‘It's incredibly exciting to be working with Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival to create something quite unique and it's especially exciting that we're going to do it with Andy back in the fold.
‘We intended to take a breather from regular band activities this year after a fairly hectic schedule touring for the last two Field Music records and this is exactly the kind of project we wanted to make time for; something which forces us to think and work in a different way and which will hopefully spur us to make something different and inspiring.’
The new score from the band will be debuted at this year’s Berwick Film and Media Arts festival before going on to tour other cinemas and events around the UK.
The piece is a response to the festival’s theme for 2013 of North by Northeast, which aims to encourage creatives to explore the region’s historical links to Northern Europe and the North Sea.
Read our feature on the North East and the songwriters and musicians doing their bit to put the region on the musical map.
www.berwickfilm-artsfest.com
www.field-music.co.uk
The Mercury Music Prize nominated group will perform the new composition live at the Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival, which runs 25-29 September.
Drifters is a film from 1929 which charts the working day of a herring fishing fleet as it sets sail from the Shetland Islands into the North Sea.
The commission, which has been supported by PRS for Music Foundation and Arts Council England, sees Field Music’s original line up of brothers Peter and David Brewis unite with Andrew Moore for the first time since 2007.
David said of the commission: ‘It's incredibly exciting to be working with Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival to create something quite unique and it's especially exciting that we're going to do it with Andy back in the fold.
‘We intended to take a breather from regular band activities this year after a fairly hectic schedule touring for the last two Field Music records and this is exactly the kind of project we wanted to make time for; something which forces us to think and work in a different way and which will hopefully spur us to make something different and inspiring.’
The new score from the band will be debuted at this year’s Berwick Film and Media Arts festival before going on to tour other cinemas and events around the UK.
The piece is a response to the festival’s theme for 2013 of North by Northeast, which aims to encourage creatives to explore the region’s historical links to Northern Europe and the North Sea.
Read our feature on the North East and the songwriters and musicians doing their bit to put the region on the musical map.
www.berwickfilm-artsfest.com
www.field-music.co.uk
