Marking 2017 as the 70th anniversary of Indian independence, Metal - in partnership with Warp Records, Barbican Centre, and Boiler Room; plus Indian partners Wild City and What About Art? - present Different Trains 1947.
Different Trains 1947 is a collaboration between music artists Actress, Jack Barnett (These New Puritans), Indian music producer Sandunes, and filmmakers/artists Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard, who will perform a new audiovisual composition in response to the events of 1947.
Though the performances will comprise entirely new work, as a primary source of inspiration the composers have considered the conceptual and formal framework of Different Trains (1988) by the genre-defining minimalist composer Steve Reich.
Archival film footage from the period will weave through the performances, along with audio interviews - collected in both India and the UK - from those who lived through this dynamic period of history, as a means distilling the larger story of Indian independence.
Different Trains 1947 will premiere in Liverpool as an open-air concert at Metal, Edge Hill railway station - the oldest active passenger railway station in the world – on 28th September 2017.
The piece will then be presented at Barbican Hall London (1st October 2017) and Magnetic Fields Festival, within the grounds of a 17th Century palace on the edge of the desert in Rajasthan in India (15th-17th December 2017), creating a truly epic international showcase for this new commission, with Boiler Room streaming one of the events as a live global broadcast.
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