Threads across the sea

"This piece is a collaboration between composer Sarah Jenkins, sound artist Noah Lawson and poet Shukria Rezaei, and was created for the Odyssey Ensemble. The foundation for the piece is the recording provided by the Cities and Migration Sounds project, in which is heard the celebration of a group of West African migrants who had recently been rescued from an overcrowded dinghy. 

"The jubilation heard in the clip and the implied hardship that these people have faced and will go on to endure gave the shape and narrative for the piece. In addition, Rezaei draws upon her own experience as a refugee, weaving threads of her own story with the recording to tell a collective tale of hardship and hope."

Ocean Viking celebration reimagined by The Odyssey Ensemble.

Part of the Migration Sounds project, the world’s first collection of the sounds of human migration. 

For more information and to explore the project, see https://www.citiesandmemory.com/migration