Voices
in the soft cool breeze
prefacing soundscapes
chattering birds and traffic waves
Soundscapes: Nature’s Voice in Urban Life
Category: amerta movement
Writing Waves: A Musical Journey Inspired by Virginia Woolf
The Writing Waves project has been in the making ever since I read The Waves by Virginia Woolf a few years ago. I was deeply impressed and inspired by it ‘s poetic flow. I decided to create a new work so I set about the text of the book using a ‘cut ups’ method with a view to setting it to music following the ‘Circus On’ template by John Cage, but as I progressed with this deconstructive method I became horrified at the thought of disfiguring a great work of art, so I settled on the idea of writing some piano pieces based on the characters in the book. In time I decided to try a more media based method based on the waves ( piano music fragments) which I recorded in 2024 on my mobile phone. The film is set on the ‘portable art patio’ and connects with my Amerta Art Patio Instagram project.
…“except that the sea was slightly creased as if a cloth had wrinkles in it” …Virginia Woolf The Waves page one.
Amerta Movement Origins: A Tribute to Prapto Suryodarmo
My tribute to Amerta Movement originator and teacher.
Filmed at Westhay Joged Amerta session 2016.
Amerta Art Patio
A Film by Virginia Aurora Scott https://vimeo.com/275593986
When Sarah Hyde, my Amerta Movement tutor, first suggested a project to me in October 2016, my default was to think piano. But what was to emerge was an art project with camera work, which I had already been contributing to our movement group sessions.
6 of my abstract canvases inspired by my musical improvisation work were set free in my small town garden patio movement space, to be in nature and ambient sound.
This film has been compiled from the many images and films recorded since that time to the present day, witnessing the journey so far.
Virginia Aurora Scott 