shiraz project

this afternoon we finish up the second round of schools workshops and tomorrow we start with the third visit in the lead up to a performance in front of peers on 7 July. the project is jointly devised by Sarvar Sabri, the composer of the Festival commission for the full film, and Miguel Mera, the brilliant London-based film composer who devised our Silent Film Project based on Charlie Chaplin shorts in 2006 (alongside the most excellent Rainmaker Vision Factory from Wolverhampton).
This year students from four schools will compose and perform a score for excerpts from the 1928 silent Indian film, Shiraz (receiving its world premiere with a Sabri score on 10 July), while learning about musical structures and genre and also about the structure of film and the way different cultures are represented.
The project received generous support from the Clore Duffield Foundation.

Chanced across this pic in the office - it's Carl Peberdy teaching sitar from one of the initial workshops.