Now the Rest and Be Thankful magnificence spot in Argyll and Glasgow‘s metropolis centre skyline are to get starring roles in two quick movies aimed toward combining surroundings with music to showcase Scotland and its expertise world wide.
The challenge was developed through the pandemic to create new movies open air celebrating “a much-needed sense of space and freedom”.
The “Sonic Surroundings project” was created by Glasgow-based arts firm Cryptic to carry individuals collectively by “beauty, freedom, happiness and hope”.
And it desires to forge partnerships with worldwide arts organisations with the goal of inspiring different quick movies to be made by musicians on rooftops and towards scenic landscapes world wide.
Drones and hand-held cameras had been used to create the movies, one in every of which options Glaswegian electro-pop performer Elisabeth Elektra, who climbed a hill in wellies to movie within the wind and rain on the well-known Argyll viewpoint.
In the opposite, the Ando Glaso Collective – a band drawn from Scotland’s various Romanian, Polish, Slovak, Czech and Hungarian Roma communities – carried out on prime of a tower block beside the M8 .
The two movies will likely be launched on-line after a premiere in Glasgow in August at a fundraising occasion for charities in Ukraine, the place Cryptic has developed long-standing cultural connections.
Cathie Boyd, Cryptic’s inventive director, mentioned: “The project wasn’t about shooting music videos.
“It was about artists being in an extraordinary location, with a feeling of them being completely isolated, but also being able to see the beauty around them.
“We somehow got five songs from Elisabeth in the can, which I didn’t think we’d get because of the weather. It was so dramatic – the clouds were coming in right behind her. The wind was so strong I thought we were going to lose a drone when we were filming.
“What drone footage has enabled us to do with this project is fantastic.
“When you’re in a country as beautiful as Scotland you want to show it to the world. That’s what I’m really excited about.”
Elisabeth Elektra, who filmed on the Rest and Be Thankful final weekend, mentioned: “The project has been quite a long time in the planning.
“I was really excited about it when I was initially approached and we were due to film last September, but unfortunately I had a really serious ankle injury which needed surgery.
“Everything had to be postponed until my ankle was strong enough to climb up the side of a really big hill.
“I didn’t want to climb up and down in my costume so I had to get changed behind an umbrella. It was also really boggy so I had to wear wellies to get there and the weather was really brutal.
“But it was all a bit of a dream for me – a mountain was the perfect setting to perform outdoors and it was actually kind of exhilarating. I’d certainly never done anything like it before.”
János Lang, Ando Glaso’s artistic director, mentioned: “We’ve been talking with Cryptic for a while and looking for something to work on together.”The idea with this was to have a very Glasgow landscape along with an image of opening up again and being out in the free world.”
