SPEAKING IN TUNES Scottish Premiere
Project conception by Jocelyn Pook and Dragan Aleksic, who use film, movement, sound and music to change the way an audience relates to a string quartet.
Jocelyn Pook graduated from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 1983 where she studied the viola. Following a three-year tour with The Communards, Jocelyn performed with pop acts as diverse as Laurie Anderson, Massive Attack, Ryuichi Sakamoto and Peter Gabriel but has now also developed an outstanding reputation as an imaginative and talented composer.
Jocelyn's early compositions were scores for theatre and dance companies, such as DV8 Physical Theatre and Pete Brook's Insomniac, and in 1994 Jocelyn wrote the music for Deluge, commissioned by the Canadian dance company O Vertigo Danse. The worldwide tour and musical score attracted much critical attention and one of the tracks Blow the Wind - Pie Jesu was chosen as the music to one of the original Orange mobile phone TV ads. Jocelyn is now an established film and tv composer and her original music for Stanley Kubrick's final film Eyes Wide Shut was nominated for two awards. Jocelyn has provided the TV theme and soundtrack for the BBC2 series In A Land of Plenty.
Jocelyn Pook co-founded Electra Strings, who now have a busy schedule undertaking recording sessions and tours of their own music as well as working regularly for TV and film. Electra Strings have performed with many leading rock and pop musicians including Laurie Anderson, Peter Gabriel, Nick Cave, Paul Weller, The Cranberries, Lyle Lovett and The Manic Street Preachers. Jocelyn also plays for Regular Music II, a contemporary music ensemble and is a founder member of 3 or 4 Composers, a music theatre group.
Jocelyn Pook - Viola Dragan Aleksic - Visuals Anne Stephenson - Violin Anne Wood - Violin Kate Shortt - Cello