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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.

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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)

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  •  '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

  • 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

    Read the full Scotsman review

    Buy and Stream the music on Bandcamp.

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Buy it on Bandcamp

    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

  • 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.

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