art + installations
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art + installations 〰️
Hydrophonica
EP Spring 2024
Music by Lucie Treacher
Poetry By Genevieve Carver
Featuring field recordings of Bottlenosed Dolphins, captured by scientists from the University of Aberdeen.
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Buy it on Bandcamp or listen on Spotify
Swim down with us into a world of clicks and whistles, from the thrill and danger of apex predators on a driving hunt, to playful imagined dialogues among the pod.
University of Aberdeen ecologists have been leading research on Bottlenosed Dolphins since 1989, using underwater acoustic recording equipment. Genevieve and Lucie responded to the ecologists’ work by focusing on the different types of vocalisations made by dolphins to create a 4-track EP which weaves underwater field recordings with spoken word, saxophone, flute, human whistling and a choir of children from Cromarty primary school.
Bass Clarinet and Baritone Saxophone performed by Tamar Osborn
Flute performed by Daniel Shao
Accordion performed by Josh Middleton
Mastered by Katie Tavini
Howl
Sound installation for Ceramic Exhibition Autumn 2023
Music by Lucie Treacher
For the exhibition ‘Folde’ at the Hastings Observatory, curated by Rowan Corkill as part of the Coastal Currents 2023 Festival at the Hastings Observatory
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Howl was created using voice and clay- sounds captured at a ceramicists studio. It explores the cross-overs between music and ceramics and the ritualistic processes and metamorphosis involved in both art forms. It also explores the highs and lows of these creative practices as well as the isolation that can be felt as an artist.
Listen to snippets of the sound installation below.
Photos by Jorge Stride.
Duncansby Lighthouse Installation
Installation Spring 2024
Video Design by Graeme Roger and Fraser MacDonald
Music/Sound Design by Lucie Treacher
Commissioned by Lyth Arts Centre
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A sound and video installation for the centenary of Duncansby Lighthouse at John O Groats. Featuring voices from across the local community, including local lighthouse keepers and archive sound from Wick Voices. Cello performed by Laura Peribanez.
Watch an extract from the installation and listen to the full sound piece below, or watch the whole thing on youtube.
All About People
Installation Spring 2022
Images by Graeme Roger, text by Chris Lee
Music by Lucie Treacher
Installed at Aberdeen Hospital (Winter 2021) and Aberdeen Music Hall (May 2022)
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A sound design commission for Aberdeen Hospital, for the centenary of the Joint Hospitals Scheme. Weaving together field-recordings, archive footage and interviews, as well as sound creation and readings of text performed in workshops with Aberdeen Performing Arts. The sound installation was also adapted into a performance shown at Aberdeen Music Hall.
Watch an extract of the projection with sound and hear the full audio track below.
Remembering Together
Soundwalks Summer 2023
Music/Sound Design by Lucie Treacher, with contributions from the local community
Project Lead Artists Graeme Roger and Caroline Inkle
Commissioned by the Scottish Government as part of the co-creation of covid memorials across Scotland
Words by Chris Lee and Lewie Watson
Images by Graeme Roger
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Remembering Together Moray is a project created with the Moray community involving events, music and story, providing a space for collective reflection about Covid-19. The soundwalks designed by Lucie saw both local residents and visitors to the region coming together to immerse themselves in the voices, sounds and music of Moray while reflecting upon the shared experience of the global pandemic.
Recorded in chip shops, monasteries, and primary schools, the sound piece was devised by Lucie, featuring musical contributions from the local community.
The piece features original composed music by Lucie Treacher, a fiddle tune written especially for the project by Duncan Chisholm and Hamish Napier, a clarsach tune written by Fiona Kyle during the pandemic, a bothy ballad and various traditional folk tunes and repertoire from the local area and beyond. Lucie worked with musicians and captured performances from Speyside Care Home choir, Moray Brass band, members of the Gaelic choir, Dan Ralph the Clavie King, piper Calum Stewart, step-dancer Sophie Stephenson, and clarsach player Fiona Kyle (and her dog Guide-dog Gus), recorded at Fleming hall with the assistance of Phil Wiles and Blaire Mackenzie.
Without
Song Autumn 2020
Music by Lucie Treacher
Performed by Lucie Treacher, Roberts Balanas and Kuljit Bhamra
Written for Nature Reserve Carelaverock - winner of Fèis Rois / Nature Scot's In Tune with Nature Competition
Music Video created in collaboration with Graeme Roger
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There is something about the moody light at Caerlaverock, a light that’s constantly shifting, which Lucie tried to capture in 'Without', a song which is at times a monologue and at times a dialogue. Lucie wanted to conjure the sense of space at the Natural site, the meeting of the sky and the sea which stretches across your whole field of vision. The playful voices in the song try to imitate the feeling of the grass swishing around your legs as you walk through the reserve…
Beets
Performance/Electronics Spring 2021/2022
Music by Lucie Treacher
Performed at Eavesdropping festival, Oxford House, London (2021) + Aldeburgh Festival (2022)
Filmed by Jessie Roger
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'Beets' = electronic music for root vegetables / triggering homemade beats and textures for live performances. Lucie created work especially for Eavesdropping, a series and a symposium in London dedicated to new music in 2021 and went on to create more work inspired by Balinese Gamelan for the Aldeburgh Festival June 2022.
Cryosphere
Art Film / Music video Summer 2019
Music/Images/Production by Lucie Treacher
with contributions by Joaquim Badia and Catalin Filip
Performed in the Inchindown Oil Tanks, which hold the record for longest echo in the world
Supported by Creative Scotland
Screened at Eden Court Inverness and 504 Arch London and played on BBC Radio 3’s Late Junction
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Cryosphere is an epic musical and visual journey into the Inchindown oil tunnels in the Highlands of Scotland, which hold the world record for the longest echo in the world.
This extended music video weaves stunning archive footage of the North Sea oil rigs with evocative original music composed for the space. Making music at Inchindown is like painting with sound: creating giant sonic gestures in the space, which build up and bleed into each other. This corrosion of sound in the space becomes deeply symbolic, questioning the human and environmental sacrifices made in the search for oil.
"Love the music, savour the cinematics, soak in the nostalgia. Better still, just let all of that wash over you in one big sensorial fix" The Scotsman
Sleep Circus
Research, video game and songs Spring 2021
Music and Game built by Lucie Treacher
Created as part of Lucie's artist residency at Durham University's Institute of Medical Humanities for the Threshold Worlds project.
Images by Catalin Filip
Words by JL Williams
Funded by Creative Scotland
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A point & click poetry game. Or perhaps a click-able dream? A virtual circus show, or a dream you had once, long forgotten, found again on your computer screen...
Use your lucid powers to click and sleep-stumble through a series of liminal spaces inspired by dreams from members of the public, framed within a surreal circus show. Dreams are the prancing white horses and tumbling acrobats of our nighttime wanderings, the entertainment we ourselves compose, the flaps of a tent drawn back to reveal our innermost ‘Sleep Circus’.
Sea Songs
Community film screening and heritage project Autumn 2018
Music by Lucie Treacher featuring the voices of Brora Primary School Children
Images by Catalin Filip and Lucie Treacher
Commissioned by Young Scot's Future Routes
Screened at Brora Ice House pop-up cinema
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Sea Songs is a sonic and visual exploration of superstitions in the Highlands of Scotland. The film is divided into conceptual chapters: each recreates a surreal local superstition through playful imagery. It features the voices of local school children, who create a symbolic bridge between the present and these symbols of the past. The film was screened inside a pop-up cinema created by Lucie and Catalin for the local community, using a disused ice house in a harbour in Brora, Sutherland.
Wunderkabinett
EP Autumn 2017
Music by Lucie Treacher
Performed by Lucie Treacher, Joaquim Badia, Margarita Balanas, Charlie Cawood, Roberts Balanas, Akito Goto, Phelan Burgoyne
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Listen to two of the tracks below - one based on a cake recipe!
"Like a walk through the hills to the edge of the sea" (Bandcamp review)
"A fine introduction into the quirky corners of Lucie Treacher's pop toy box, where all manner of Gamelan instrumentation, combined with a small chamber orchestra set-up, and a winning pop sensibility, make for an intriguing listen" (Weekendprog review)
Cocoon
Musical piece inspired by painting Winter 2014
Performed at the Saatchi Gallery
Music by Lucie Treacher
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A piece for voice, harp and glass percussion performed at the Saatchi gallery's Gestamkunstwerk exhibition. Inspired by Thomas Zipp's 'A.B.' . Performed by Phelan Burgoyne, Lucie Treacher and Juliana Myslov.